Short Thoughts on Pain in History and Personal Development
People today strive to live as pain-free a life as possible, treating both physical pain and emotional suffering with a range of medical and alternative therapies. But in our efforts to avoid pain, are we excluding an important part of our human experience? In this sensitive and thoughtful book, psychologist Iris Paxino explores different kinds ......
A Practical Manual for Simple Stretching, Gentle Strengthening, and Mind
This ground-breaking book offers a trauma-informed guide for everyone seeking guidance on body-based strategies for pain management. Centred around principles of building a sense of safety, supporting empowerment, and maintaining simplicity, this book takes an evidence-based approach offering clear and inclusive programs of practice. ......
This holistic guide provides an integrative toolbox on how healthcare and fitness professionals can promote lifestyle medicine with their clients. Its clinical and evidence-informed approach focuses on the six primary lifestyle medicine factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. ......
This is an authoritative and comprehensive pain management resource written by a leading expert in women's pelvic pain. Ooi Thye Chong bridges the divide between Chinese medicine acupuncture and western medical acupuncture providing an innovative approach to a common and severe form of chronic pain, supplemented with first hand patient ......
Supporting People with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
Based on an 8-week Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy programme, this guide addresses the increasing need for adapted mindfulness in the management of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Long Covid, and other chronic fatigue conditions. Using current understanding and theoretical approaches to Long Covid and ME/ CFS, this book allows practitioners to ......
A Guide to Issues, Symptoms, Treatments, and Wellness
Written by an internationally recognized expert, this book uniquely blends the latest research and understanding of chronic pain with very personal stories, including of the author, his wife, his patients and historical figures.
Addresses the root of pain. Since pain is literally a product of the brain, which announces it after being warned by a small army of nocioceptors stationed throughout the body, it is also open to glitches in that process. Chronic pain often occurs when the brain remembers pain, even though the condition that caused it may have been dealt with.
How to Overcome Chronic Back Pain and Rebuild Your Life
Talking Back teaches people who are disabled by chronic back pain how to put their lives back together again. The book is packed with lessons learned from thousands of real experts: people who did it themselves!
Hip and Knee Pain Disorders has been written to provide a state-of-the-art, evidence-informed and clinically-informed overview of the examination and conservativemanagement of hip/knee pain conditions.
