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Living with Chronic Pain: The Complete Health Guide to the Causes and Cures for Chronic Pain  
Author: Jennifer P. Schneider
ISBN: 1578261759
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Take back your life from chronic pain! Do you wake up every morning in pain? Do you avoid activities you love because you're afraid of a flare-up? Has managing your pain symptoms become a full-time job? If so, you're not alone. More than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. From migraine headaches to arthritis, and sports injuries to back pain, chronic pain can affect anyone at any age. It is frequently undertreated, and worse, many doctors simply ignore it. Now there is real help and hope. In Living with Chronic Pain, noted pain specialist Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D., offers expert advice and guidance in everyday language on symptoms, causes, and treatments. Here is all the information you need to start feeling better right away. In Living with Chronic Pain you'll find: *an up-to-date guide to the newest analgesic pain relievers (including NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors) and other medications that have proven helpful, such as antidepressants, local anesthetics, muscle relaxants and sleeping pills *a detailed and no-nonsense discussion about opioids, their benefits and risks, why they are underprescribed, and whether they can help you *the way your personality type affects your ability to cope with chronic pain, including tips from other patients on how they have dealt with their problems *the latest non-drug approaches to pain management, including massage therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral therapy, counseling and much more.

About the Author
Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert in pain management medicine. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Academy of Pain Management and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She is the author of seven books and numerous articles in professional journals and frequently lectures to physicians, nurses, counselors, and other healthcare professionals about pain management. She has been a guest on numerous national radio and television shows such as the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is in private practice in Tucson, Arizona.




Living with Chronic Pain: The Complete Health Guide to the Causes and Cures for Chronic Pain

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Do you wake up every morning in pain? Do you avoid activities you love because you're afraid of a flare-up? Has managing your pain symptoms become a full-time job? If so, you're not alone. More than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. From migraine headaches to arthritis, and sports injuries to back pain, chronic pain can affect anyone at any age. It is frequently undertreated, and worse, many doctors simply ignore it. Now there is real help and hope. In Living with Chronic Pain, noted pain specialist Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D., offers expert advice and guidance in everyday language on symptoms, causes, and treatments. Here is all the information you need to start feeling better right away.

     



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