Opioid-Free Pain Relief Kit: 10 Simple Steps to Ease Your Pain - Softcover

Beth Darnall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936693984 ISBN 13: 9781936693986

Publisher: Bull Publishing Co. (US), 2016

Synopsis

Book & CD. Picking up this book shows you want to help yourself feel better. That is the first step toward having less pain and using less pain medication. You are not alone. About 100 million Americans -- one in three people -- have ongoing pain. It can be mild or very strong, come in waves or always be present, be simply annoying or make your normal life hard to live. Pain is the most common reason people visit their doctor. Many people mistakenly believe that chronic pain is best treated simply by taking powerful painkillers, also known as opioids. But people who think pills are the only answer are mistaken, because the best treatment for chronic pain includes much more than pills. In fact, the most important part of pain treatment is not your medication or even your doctor: it is YOU. This book gives you the right road map and skills to help you reduce your own pain, so you need less medication. It is a formula for success -- your own personal pain relief kit. Comes with a Relaxation CD to calm your nervous system.

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Review

"All people with pain - PLEASE, read and learn from Beth Darnall's fun and accessible new book about how to manage your pain. Her proven techniques, founded on solid principles of behavioral neuroscience, are helpfully illustrated with reader-friendly diagrams and patient stories. They will help you develop core skills to manage your daily pain, no matter its cause. I wish all my patients would take this course!" --Rollin McC. Gallagher, MD, MPH, National Director for Pain Management, Veterans Health Administration; Editor-in- Chief, Pain Medicine; Clinical Professor, University of Pennsylvania

"A superb self-help book that uses cognitive-behavioral principles to guide recovery from chronic pain. Easy to read and to implement the exercises, this brief and focused text will provide both the information and the how-to-do-it that chronic pain sufferers can utilize to restore normal activities." --John Loeser, MD, Professor, University of Washington, Past President, American Pain Society and, the International Association for the Study of Pain

About the Author

Beth Darnall, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the division of pain medicine at Stanford University. She has more than 10 years' experience treating adults with chronic pain and lived through her own chronic pain experience. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bull Publishing Co. (US)
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1936693984
• ISBN 13: 9781936693986
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144