Reed, Michael
Cady, Roger
Review "Good news for headache sufferers...for millions of people living with headache pain, this book offers approaches to living headache free." -- Robert B. Lipton, M.D., Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "this is the best instruction manual on the market for headache free living." -- Elmer Green, Ph.D., Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Psychophysiology, The Menninger Clinic "An excellent comprehensive resource....I highly recommend this handbook for all headache sufferers and their families." -- Seymour Diamond, M.D., Diamond Headache Clinic, Chicago, Illinois Ingram Stating that headaches are highly treatable if properly diagnosed, a comprehensive guide identifies how to prevent headaches by eliminating hidden causes and provides a complete list of medicines and alternative treatments. Reprint.
Sarno, John E.
Amazon.com Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs--and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions. He's not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, he's saying that the battle going on in your mind results in a real physical disorder that may affect muscles, nerves, tendons, or ligaments. An injury may have triggered the disorder, but is not the cause of the amount or intensity of the resulting pain. According to Sarno, the mind tricks you into not facing repressed emotion by making you focus on pain in the body. When this realization sinks in ("and it must sink in, for mere intellectual appreciation of the process is not enough"), the trick doesn't work any more, and there's no need for the pain. (Healing Back Pain should not be used for self-diagnosis. Always consult a physician for chronic or acute back pain.) --Joan Price From Library Journal This best seller was first published in 1991, but no one ever bid for the audio rights. Now, Sarno will narrate his own work. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Finnigan, Jeffry
Hartnell, Agnes
Faber, William
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-325) and index.
Pace, J. Blair
Includes index.
Feinstein, Alice (Editor)
Ingram A complete compendium--from head to toe--of pain-relief techniques, including alternative healing methods and the latest discoveries of medical science. Includes hundreds of home remedies and drug-free techniques, relief for dozens of common conditions, special "pain-finder" charts to help the reader discover the cause of pain, and more. Illustrated. The publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Whether you have a headache or heartburn, flu or frostbite, The Prevention Pain-Relief System offers hundreds of safe and effective techniques for alleviating your pain. From herbal remedies to acupuncture, radical surgery to stress-management skills, this invaluable compendium provides the best strategies medical science has to offer, plus proven alternative healing methods designed to help you ease your pain today and prevent its return tomorrow. A total program for relieving any pain... read more --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Feinstein, Alice (Editor)
Ingram The authors of The Doctors Book of Home Remedies show how to use exercise to heal back pain, arthritis, bursitis, stress, headaches, and more serious ailments, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
Rosenfeld, Arthur
From Book News, Inc. A Florida author presents interviews with authorities on pain, including patients, healthcare and Zen practitioners, and discusses compassionate pain management. Includes a foreword by Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, the health editor of Parade Magazine; resources; and a glossary. Lacks references and an index.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Book Info Text presents thirty-six interviews with patients, healthcare professionals, ethicists, social commentators, and scientists regarding the hows and whys of pain. Reveals factors that prevent patients from receiving pain relief: insurance company limits, misconceptions about stoicism, and fears of painkiller addiction heightened by the war on drugs. DNLM: Chronic Disease--Interview. Book Description A revealing look at the war on chronic pain, told in the words of pain sufferers and those who treat them. "It's all in your head." "Learn to bear it." "That drug will make you a junkie." For the more than seventy-five million Americans affected by chronic pain, these are fighting words. Despite extraordinary medical progress in recent years, millions of people, debilitated by the pain of incurable cancer, crippling arthritis, unremitting headaches, and a host of degenerative disorders, continue to suffer needlessly. Here, in their own words, are the stories of more than forty people whose lives are dictated by pain--patients, healthcare professionals, ethicists, social commentators, and scientists--shining a powerful searchlight on America's most misunderstood health problem. The Truth About Chronic Pain reveals that pain is often ignored or under-treated due to widespread beliefs that it is a sign of weakness or unfounded fears that properly administered painkillers will cause addiction. As bureaucrats, doctors, and pharmacists become combatants in the War on Drugs, people in pain too often become unforeseen casualties. The Truth About Chronic Pain provides what pain-sufferers need just as keenly as physical relief: the knowledge that they are not alone. The voices on these pages are an eloquent testament to individual courage and a powerful plea to medical institutions, political leaders, and insurance companies to implement effective solutions to the problem of pain.