Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain, 3rd Edition, Epub + converted pdf

Effective strategies for coping with chronic pain.
It has been said that chronic pain is a silent epidemic. Over 10% of the population, or more than one in ten persons, experience persistent discomfort. How frequently did you: over the past month? 1. taken painkillers to enable you to perform an action that you knew would aggravate your pain? 2. overcame discomfort to complete a task, then “paid” for it later with greater agony? 3. discovered that pain affects your ability to sleep, work, play, and socialize? 4. As a result of your suffering, did you take one or more extended naps during the day? 5. realized you couldn’t continue as your discomfort worsened 6. Are you concerned that your physicians “missed something”? 7. being instructed to “live with the pain” without being given how to do it? If you said “yes” to any of these, managing your pain will help you live a better life. All too often, chronic pain cannot be effectively addressed, and medication is not always the best option. But the variety of treatments offered by MANAGE YOUR PAIN can help you learn to lessen the impact of pain and move persistent discomfort into the background of your life, where it belongs.