CATALOGUES - Health - Health & Psychology - Pain Management

In many cases, traditional approaches to chronic pain--drugs, physical therapy, medical procedures--just don't work. Sufferers fritter away their lives and their savings accounts on one ineffective treatment after the next, trying to get relief from pain--but sometimes the pain never goes away. This discouraging cycle can be as damaging as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management encourage living well despite pain. Distilled from the very best of these techniques, this little book offers ... read more

Professionals who work with patients and clients struggling with chronic pain will benefit from this values-based behavior change program for managing the effects of pain. The book addresses case formulation and clinical techniques for working with pain patients through a combination of practical instruction and a treatment scenario narrative that follows a patient through an ACT-based intervention. An invaluable resource for rehabilitation specialists, psychologists, physicians, nurses, and others.

Sixteen years ago, psychologist Michael Lewandowski devised a series of questions for patients suffering from chronic pain that identifies specific factors that aggravate and perpetuate pain. Those questions became the "Behavioral Assessment of Pain Questionnaire", which is now used throughout the world in the treatment of chronic pain. By using this questionnaire, doctors are able to customise pain-management programs to the specific needs of individuals. Now Lewandowski brings this powerful set of tools to readers in a unique sel... read more

An authoritative and valuable resource for those suffering from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain features tips and self-help techniques, provides the most recent information on various treatments, discusses surgical options and medications, and much more. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Millions suffer from joint or back injuries and live with chronic pain. But relief is possible, and Dr Joseph Valdez can show them how to achieve it. By carefully analysing a wide range of treatment options and focusing on prolotherapy, this book offers hope for permanent healing. For many people with soft tissue injuries (eg: ligament and tendon injuries), the best solution is prolotherapy, a series of drug free injections into and around injured joints to stimulate the body's natural healing response and repair and strengthen ten... read more

Using mindfulness-based techniques and cognitive behavioral tools, a leading expert on the use of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) teaches readers to transcend the experience of chronic pain by reconnecting with other, more valued aspects of their lives. A rich and rewarding life is possible for those of us who live with chronic pain. Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), one of the most promising and fastest growing psychotherapies being practiced today, this book breaks with conventional notions of pain manage... read more

GUIDELINES Pocketcards™ are multi-fold pocketcards containing society-endorsed, evidence-based treatment guidelines in a brief algorithmic format that is most preferred by practicing clinicians, quality managers, nurses, educators, and medical students. The Pain Management for Older Patients GUIDELINES Pocketcard™ is endorsed by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and based on their latest guidelines. This practical quick-reference tool contains key points, specific information relevant to the elderly population, a... read more

This book describes the method of Paradoxical Relaxation, a method initially used and studied by researchers at Stanford University in the Department of Urology for the treatment of male and female chronic pelvic pain syndromes. This method has been one of the major components of the Wise-Anderson Protocol for pelvic pain, popularly known for many years as the Stanford Protocol. Paradoxical Relaxation was designed by David Wise to assist patients to profoundly relax, who were experiencing both pain and anxiety. The strength of the ... read more

A neurologist specializing in headache treatment outlines ten simple techniques to help relieve and prevent migraines, including drug therapy, lifestyle enhancements, and complementary therapies, including supplements, diet, and exercise.

With an easy to follow series of photographs, you'll learn to use the Matrix Repatterning Program's three part process.

Based on results from scientific research, this volume offers back pain sufferers a series of simple excercises that target muscles that have been identified as being a common source of back pain. Line illustrations accompany each exercise. Physical therapist Jim Johnson reviewed the double-blind back-pain studies published since 1987, and found that it suggested a specific set of muscles played a key role in the majority of back pain. It showed 90 per cent of back pain sufferers have underdeveloped multifidus muscles. If these mus... read more

"I have such a headache " For many of us, this cry is something of a mantra. Statistics about headaches and migraines are so far-reaching, the experiences of these problems so ubiquitous, that listing specifics about them can seem incredible: 26 million Americans suffer regular migraines, and another 45 million experience chronic headache pain. In 2001 alone, more than 10 million doctor visits were occasioned by headaches. This book is welcome relief to the millions who struggle daily with headache pain. It develops trigger point t... read more