Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain - Softcover

LeFort MN PhD, Sandra; Webster RN, Lisa; Lorig DrPH, Dr Kate; Holman, Halsted; Sobel, David; Laurent, Diana; Gonzalez, Virginia; Minor, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936693771 ISBN 13: 9781936693771

Publisher: Bull Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

Book & CD. Chronic pain includes many types of conditions from a variety of causes. Despite these differences, all readers of this book have one very important thing in common -- you are living with pain every day. To help you discover strategies and skills that will make a difference, this book emphasises four concepts: Each person with chronic pain is unique. There is no one treatment or approach that is right for everybody; There are a number of things you can do to feel better. These things will not eliminate pain, but they will help you to better manage pain, and help you to become more active and more involved in life. With knowledge and experimentation, you are the best judge of which self-management tools and techniques are best for you. The responsibility for managing your chronic pain day-to-day rests with you, not anybody else. Many people can be of help to you -- your family and friends, your health care team. But, in the end, the responsibility for self-management is yours. Acknowledging that overcoming chronic pain is a daily challenge, this book provides you with the self-management tools to help you meet that challenge. Includes a Moving Easy Program CD, a set of easy-to-follow exercises that can be performed at home.

About this title

About the Authors

Sandra LeFort, MN, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada where she teaches and continues to do research in pain.

Lisa Webster, RN, is the clinical manager of Pain Management Centre at Hamilton General Hospital.

Kate Lorig, DrPH, is director and professor emerita at StanfordUniversity School of Medicine'sPatient Education Research Center.

Halsted Holman, MD, is professor emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine.

David T. Sobel, M. Ed., author of Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors (Green Writers Press, 2018), is senior faculty in the Education Department of Antioch New England University in Keene, New Hampshire. He consults and speaks widely on environmental education and child development and is the author of seven other books, including Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning, Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators, Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, and Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education. He has also written many articles about children and nature that have appeared in Orion, Encounter, Sierra, Sanctuary, Wondertime, Green Teacher, and other publications. He has served on the editorial boards of Encounter, Orion, and Community Works Journal, for which he writes a regular column. Sobel was identified as one of the &

Edition details

• Publisher: Bull Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1936693771
• ISBN 13: 9781936693771
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360