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If you're in chronic pain and you're not getting adequate relief from your treatment, this book is for you. You don't have to learn to live with your pain or put up with unpleasant side effects from your medication. The good news is that there are treatments available that could safely cure your pain. Kirkus Reviews says The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments is A comprehensive, impeccably researched debut handbook that focuses on alternative treatments for chronic pain... its all-embracing approach makes it suitable for laymen and health care providers alike. The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments reviews the evidence for the safety and effectiveness of a wide variety of treatments, and reveals how organized medicine may be keeping you from getting the care you need and deserve. This comprehensive guide will help you avoid the treatments that don't work or are likely to cause harm and select the therapies that are most likely to promote healing. Here are some things you will learn about in The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments: * Which drugs are likely to do more harm than good and which are the safest * Why results from one common diagnostic test should never be a reason to have back surgery * How your mind influences pain levels. * How to use your brain to heal your pain * The evidence for the safety and effectiveness of drug-free, nonsurgical treatments * There is no one size fits all treatment and a multidisciplinary approach works best When you read this book you will also learn about how the following therapies can heal your pain: * Biofeedback * Psychotherapy * Physical therapy * Exercise * Chiropractic treatment * Nutrition and supplements * Massage * Acupuncture * Herbs * Homeopathy * Energy medicine * Marijuana * Low level laser therapy * Multidisciplinary pain treatment programs Unlike most books on chronic pain treatment that advocate one specific treatment, The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments provides information about a wide variety of therapies so that you can make informed decisions about what is best for you. This essential pain management handbook also explains why you haven't heard more about the many safe, effective pain treatments that are available. It includes a legislative proposal, the Pain Treatment Parity Act, which would eliminate the barriers to pain patients getting safer and more effective care.

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A comprehensive, impeccably researched debut handbook that focuses on alternative treatments for chronic pain. Perlin, a licensed clinical social worker and the former president of the Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society, runs an Albany, New York-area practice. Her primary concern is for the estimated 116 million Americans affected by chronic pain...The book starts by discussing some well-known treatment options--opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and pain injections--but quickly branches into less-obvious territory. In comparison to pharmaceuticals, the author says, mind/body treatments are safe, cheap, and effective. Yet promising alternatives that might mitigate back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, and post-traumatic stress disorder--such as massage, nutrition, herbs, exercise, acupuncture, energy healing, laser therapy, and even marijuana--are barely on the radars of doctors or insurance companies...Perlin includes an invaluable section called Research Results after describing each treatment type, providing details of relevant evidence-based studies that suggest health benefits. She also addresses potential side effects and gives helpful statistics and case studies ... to show the range of experiences that people have had. The book concludes on a daring note, proposing a Pain Treatment Parity Act that would require insurers to cover all credible pain treatments equally, not just pharmaceuticals. ... its all-embracing approach makes it suitable for laymen and health care providers alike. Kirkus Reviews Cindy Perlin has written a valuable guide to the understanding and treatment of chronic pain. The Truth About Chronic Pain Treatments is itself a valuable treatment-- a marvelous compendium that will improve the wellbeing of anyone facing this very common problem. Perlin speaks in plain language with great authority and wisdom. -Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters and Healing Words. Exposes how common evaluations and treatments may not be in the best interest of the patient suffering with persistent pain. Institutional bias often favors potentially harmful and expensive interventions whilst ignoring or trivializing those that are essentially safe and may be as or more effective. Ms. Perlin chronicles patients who have been helped and encourages you to investigate alternative treatments so that you too may avoid needless expense and suffering. - Norman Marcus, M.D., author of End Back Pain Forever I highly recommendthis book to all my chronic pain patients so they can become more informed ofthe treatment options that are out there for them. - John Garzione, PT, DPT, Past President Pain Management Spcial Interest Group, American Physical TherapyAssociation; Board of Directors American Academy of Pain Management. Well referenced and well written. I recommend it. - Andrew W. Saul, Author of Doctor Yourself and editor of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service A superb book. All patients dealing with pain and all practitioners working with people in pain should read this book. Read this book before taking pain medications--it may save your life. -Erik Peper, President, Biofeedback Foundation of Europe, author of Make Health Happen and co-author of Fighting Cancer Cindy Perlin's book reveals important and significant information about the many effective treatments for pain other than a pill prescribed by your doctor. I know from my experience as a surgeon that there are many treatments, from emotional to physical, which can heal the cause and relieve resulting pain. This book is a wonderful resource for those in need of relief from pain. -Bernie Siegel, MD author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and The Art of Healing

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