Hillel M. Finestone

Hillel M. Finestone is a doctor, a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Physiatrist) at Bruyere Continuing Care, Medical Director of the Stroke Rehabilitation Program at the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He has a passion to know what are the causes of his patients' pain problems and what roles social, environmental and psychological factors play in disease expression and recovery from injury. He is "The Pain Detective" of his book "The Pain Detective, Every Ache Tells A Story, Understanding How Stress and Emotional Hurt Become Chronic Physical Pain.".

Finestone takes you right inside his clinic and carefully details how a medical case of difficult to treat musculoskeletal pain can be handled. Issues of disability and the law are woven through the laboratory tests and the sometimes tense questioning that must be undertaken to solve a case.

Finestone offers real solutions via the text, diagrams and a Pain Explanation and Treatment Diagram that he regularly uses with his patients.

Breaking through barriers, in Finestone's case, medical ones, is a recurring theme. Integrating the mind and body in a creative,non-judgemental way is what is needed in medicine but that concept is not always easy to find. Hillel M. Finestone wants to share his personal and scientific thoughts via a narrative approach; through thought provoking and real stories of broken people who find ways to heal their wounds. He hopes you enjoy the journeys described.