Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Pain Management

Seattle spinal surgeon Dr. David Hanscom focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that the medical world has largely overlooked: you must calm your nervous system in order to get better. More than any other book about pain, Back in Control reveals how to quiet a turbocharged central nervous system and make a full recovery, with or without surgery. Dr. Hanscom shares the story of his own journey out of chronic pain and offers a treatment paradigm that has evolved from his personal experience, as well what he has learned from his patients, hundreds of whom have moved beyond managing...

Do you suffer from lower-back pain or sciatica that limits your mobility?

Banish that pain for good without drugs, injections, or surgery. Physical therapist Frank J. Cawley, MPT, explains how to do so in this concise, easy-to-understand guide.

Cawley hit upon an effective alternative to alleviating long-term back pain after becoming frustrated with the poor results many of his clients were experiencing. Cawley's solution? Hands-on physical therapy. Using this method, a licensed physical therapist manually guides the muscles while exerting pressure on them. At home, the...

Based on the authors 20 years of clinical experience and research using EMDR to treat pain, this book shows how to harness natural brain capacities such as attention, memory and sensory processing to change the brain activity which maintains pain. The new 'Change Your Brain Change Your Pain' offers a combination of insightful information and practical real-world strategies for reversing the brain activity which maintains chronic pain and includes;

• How to understand your pain in terms of how your brain works.
• How to match pain-related problems onto brain activity and...

As many as eight million people worldwide suffer from reflex sympathetic pain syndrome/chronic regional pain syndrome (RSD/CRPS). Many have not been diagnosed, even though the pain they experience can be severe, debilitating, and life-changing.

As Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, DC, QNP, reveals in Putting Out the Fire, RSD/CRPS was first documented during the Civil War. It took physicians many decades to understand the subtleties of the disease, and research is still moving forward. Dr. Van der Merwe is at the forefront of new treatments to relieve pain.

Van der Merwe...

My Pain Alert ^TM Scale Communication Tool is an introduction to pain management for the very young and for people with communication handicaps. Just as we train our small children to convey their bowel and bladder needs, we can train very young and limited communicators to clarify their pain relief needs.

Forty years of speech therapy practice have been distilled to make this tool widely accessible. The degree of pain is divided into only five levels. The description relates each level to the limited communicator's own experiences. The levels are depicted by a person, not...