Validate Your Pain!: Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-up - Softcover

Chino, Allan F.; Davis, Corinne Dille

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967343925 ISBN 13: 9780967343921

Publisher: Access Publishers Network, 2000

Synopsis

As the title strong states: "Validation" is something many who suffer with chronic pain often don't get -- but need. People are tired of hearing that their pain might be "just in your head." For generations, those of us who deal with unrelenting pain on a daily basis have been glossed over, ignored, or flat misdiagnosed. Now a team of doctors has come along with a book that speaks directly to the individual whose pain dominates their lives. Here, in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format, are tried-and-true ways to get the attention you deserve for debilitating pain. Validate Your Pain! works with the reader and provides direction on how to take control of your own health care destiny, how to ask the right questions, and how to know when you are being ignored or unheard. Board certified in pain medicine and supported by decades of work with chronic pain patients, Drs. Chino and Davis bring their vast experience and concern to the pages of this eye-opening book. Suffer no more in silence. Understand the role physicians and insurance companies play in your treatment. Get the truth about pain medications and the unsubstantiated fear of addiction so many physicians have. Get the. information your need to maneuver through the healthcare minefields-- and get the help you deserve.

About this title

About the Author

Allan F. Chino, Ph.D., ABPP is board certified inClinical Health Psychology and Past President of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. He set up two anddirected three CARF-accredited painrehabilitation programs in northern California and Oregon. Currently in privatepractice near Portland, Oregon, Dr. Chino was elected to the Board of Directorsof the Oregon Psychological Association.He also serves on the Oregon PainManagement Commission which is charged with identifying and providing thelegislature with recommendations for removing barriers to the provision ofeffective pain management in the state.¿He has conducted biobehavioral research in the area of fibromyalgia. Inaddition to being a father (of two) and a husband (of one), Dr. Chino is amusician, a video producer, and former moderator of the board of deacons at hischurch.Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. isboard certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, andElectrodiagnostic Medicine. With Dr. Chino, she developed and directed aCARF-accredited hospital-based pain rehabilitation program in northernCalifornia. Having had her fill of practicing in a corporate hospital setting,she now provides medical pain management services in her private practice. Inaddition, she works for the federal government as a clinician, researcher, andeducator of doctors in training. Dr. Davis is a devoted wife, mother, andactive member of her church.

Synopsis

This work takes readers inside the healthcare system that is denying patients proper pain management treatment. It provides checklists to ensure that you are getting the highest quality pain care and also offers practical exercise suggestions for people who suffer from chronic pain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Access Publishers Network
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967343925
• ISBN 13: 9780967343921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374