Making Sense of Chronic Pain (Paperback)
Jerry Curry
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Add to basketPaperback. You've been told your pain doesn't make sense. That your tests are normal, that maybe it's all in your head.But your pain is real. The fatigue is real. The brain fog, the flare-ups, the way your body seems to betray you without warning. It's all real. And it's not random.This book offers a new way to understand the mechanics of chronic pain, including conditions such as fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, CRPS, POTS, and trauma-related pain. It draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience with athletes and chronic pain patients, along with the latest pain neuroscience research. At its core, it shows that these conditions share a single underlying pattern: maladaptive neuroplasticity and the nervous system's learned tendency to amplify pain and threat.This isn't another book promising a cure. It's a guide to understanding why your body behaves the way it does, and what you can do about it. With a tone that's equal parts empathetic and unflinching, it walks you through the science of pain, the mechanisms of chronic conditions, and the interventions that actually target the root system, not just the symptoms.If you've been collecting diagnoses, fighting for validation, and searching for answers that make sense, this book is for you.Written by a licensed massage therapist, certified wellness coach, and strength and conditioning specialist with over 20 years of experience helping people navigate complex pain conditions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Your tests came back normal. Your doctors ran out of answers. But the pain never left.
You're not imagining it. You're not weak. And you're not crazy.
Chronic pain doesn't follow the rules medicine taught us. It doesn't show up clean on scans. It doesn't respond to treatments that should work. And it doesn't care how many specialists you've seen or how many times you've been told there's nothing wrong.
There is something wrong. It's just not what anyone told you to look for.
Making Sense of Chronic Pain explains the actual mechanics behind why pain persists — the neuroscience, the nervous system patterns, and the biology that keeps your body stuck in a threat response long after the original injury is gone. It covers fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, CRPS, POTS, trauma-related pain, and the conditions that fall through the cracks of conventional medicine.
This isn't a cure. It's something more useful — an explanation that finally makes sense of what your body has been doing and why. Because understanding your pain is the first step toward actually doing something about it.
Written by a licensed massage therapist and strength and conditioning specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience working with chronic pain patients and athletes.
If you've been collecting diagnoses and running out of hope, this book was written for you.
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