The Doctor's Guide to Chronic Pain

Good. Good Ships From Canada Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 272 p Contains: Illustrations Audience: General/trade From Publishers Weekly: More than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, says the author of this book on conventional and alternative treatments for pain, and 25 million more experience acute pain each year If those sufferers are patient enough to wade through the sea of extraneous information and redundancies at the beginning of this book, they'll be pleased to find easy to implement self-care tips, medical measures and complimentary options on ailments ranging from arthritis to chronic fatigue syndrome, neck pain to premenstrual syndrome There's a particularly helpful discussion of various drug treatments including NSAIDs (like ibuprofen and naproxen), acetaminophens (like Tylenol) and opioids (such as codeine and morphine) Laliberte, a freelance health writer, also addresses the "'"mind over matter"'" aspects of pain, explaining, "'"[H]ow you ha