Manage Your Pain
Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain
Published on 7. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-285-64048-1 (ISBN)
Description
The causes of chronic pain vary, ranging from physical injury to arthritis or cancer to neurological problem to environmental and psychological factors. But, whatever the cause, this pain can disrupt schedules and make it impossible to enjoy daily life. Manage Your Pain offers suffers a pathway towards recovery.
Drawing on the latest research, Manage Your Pain explains the positive and practical ways you can adapt to chronic pain in order to minimise its impacts on your life. It provides easy methods to identify patterns and triggers as well as practical steps to help sufferers return to normal life.
This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on pain management for older people, and clear explanations of the causes of pain and the steps that anyone can take to minimise its impacts on their life and the lives of their loved ones.
Drawing on the latest research, Manage Your Pain explains the positive and practical ways you can adapt to chronic pain in order to minimise its impacts on your life. It provides easy methods to identify patterns and triggers as well as practical steps to help sufferers return to normal life.
This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on pain management for older people, and clear explanations of the causes of pain and the steps that anyone can take to minimise its impacts on their life and the lives of their loved ones.
Reviews / Votes
The book would be a useful starting point for anyone wishing to explore some alternative strategies to pain management. -- The Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing Essential reading for anyone who suffers chronic pain. -- Woman This book does what it says on the cover - it helps you to manage pain... The book has a lot of ideas. -- Arthritis NewsMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-285-64048-1 (9780285640481)
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The authors are highly qualified and experienced medical professionals who specialise in pain management. They bring several differing specialities to this book, ensuring that the widest range of treatments are covered. Professor Michael Nicolas and Dr Allan Molloy teach at the University of Sydney, Lois Tonkin is a senior physiotherapist while Lee Beeston is a senior nurse specialising in pain management programmes. They have all worked on the internationally acclaimed ADAPT programme at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia.