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Get Chronic Pain Under Control! Have you tried a number of approaches to manage chronic pain without much relief? The discouraging cycle of hope followed by frustration and continued pain can be as damaging to your quality of life as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management advocate living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need...
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Pain is the number-one reason American visit their doctors, Back pain, muscle aches, arthritis affect millions of people daily, limiting their activities and costing billions in medical care. Much of this suffering is unnecessary. Where It Hurts and Why can help readers take charge of their pain and become proactive in their own recovery. Individual chapters provide detailed recommendations for specific areas of the body, and also instructions for...
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Doctors and therapists erroneously view pain as the result of injury or disease. Renowned bodywork teacher and pain therapist Chuck Duff discovered that the ineffectiveness of these beliefs stems from a failure to understand the true origins of pain. His Coaching The Body® system recognizes that pain originates in the brain as a response to danger signals from trigger points that feed the brain's innate protective instinct.
CTB interrupts these...
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Immediate relief, long lasting effects, and a permanent cure for most back problems, in under 5 minutes a day. After nearly 7 years of back pain, I was able to solve my problem in just a few days. I did this myself, after reading and studying hundreds of things written on back problems, and after countless specialist visits. These are the exact exercises and specific stretches that fixed my back literally in three days, AFTER 7 years of agony, including...
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Get Migraines Under Control! If you're a migraine sufferer, you want to know what you can do to make the pain go away-now! This collection of straightforward tips cuts through the hype about migraine headaches to offer you the simple, scientific truth about how to get your migraines under control. It begins by helping you get a correct diagnosis, and then it guides you to track your own personal headache triggers. Medical treatment is sometimes the...
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This book is intended to help people on the day when severe pain strikes. It is not entirely targeted at chronic pain, however, will contribute to the reduction of chronic pain. It outlines concisely what you can do to reduce immediate, acute pain. This eBook is short and sweet; it goes straight to your point of need and will arm you with the tools that you need immediately. When used within 12 hours of onset, these measures can often succeed in lessening...
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At a time when Canada is struggling with a doctor-prescribed opioid crisis, this book offers a safe alternative for the millions of people who live with chronic pain: self-hypnosis, an ancient technique used today to soothe pain, both acute and long-lasting, with impressive results. This solution comes at a critical time: The typical prescription for pain - opioids - doesn't work for everyone, and comes with significant and even deadly side effects....
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This is war! Over 76 million American hostages suffer at the hands of this vexing villain, three quarters of these also battle depression. Added to these sad and startling statistics, many suffer loss of sleep, loss of focus and loss of work, which ultimately results in loss of income. This foul foe has long been described as 'chronic pain.' It does not discriminate when attacking. The dreadful devil goes after anyone. It targets all areas of the...
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A three-step program that puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives.
"A must read for all individuals with migraine!"-Ronald J. Tusa, M.D., PH.D., Professor of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Dizziness and Balance Center, Emory University
Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine-because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches...
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If you are one of the millions of people suffering from chronic pain, it can often seem as if your discomfort is running "and ruining" your life. Maybe you've even been told that "it's all in your head" and you just have to endure the debilitating effects of migraines, arthritis, back and neck pain, and chronic illness. You can feel good again! Defeat Chronic Pain Now! is your survival guide to preventing, reversing, and managing chronic pain. Referencing...
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"I will definitely recommend Kick Pain in the Kitchen to my patients: Those who are looking to avoid pharmaceutical treatment and those who want to combine western medicine with alternative therapies." ~ Jane A. Swartz, ARNP, MSN, Rheumatology Nurse Practitioner • Do you wish for realistic, holistic tools, which will minimize your pain and make you confident in your body? • Have you struggled to meet life's demands because managing chronic pain...
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At its heart, Pelvic Pain Explained is the story of how patients develop pelvic pain, the challenges patients and providers face throughout the diagnosis and treatment process, the difficult task of sifting through the different available treatment options, and the impact that an "invisible" condition has on a patient's life and relationships, and much more. Those who develop pelvic pain find the path to proper diagnosis and treatment frustrating...
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Pain is often treatable but doctors, medical professionals, and patients don't understand the intricacies of chronic pain. Millions who suffer from pain become hopeless. With Aches and Gains, Dr. Paul Christo, a Johns Hopkins physician and leading pain specialist sheds new light on what it means to live with and overcome chronic pain. Dr. Christo shares celebrity interviews, including Naomi Judd, Lisa Swayze, Montel Williams, Ally Hilfiger, and Clay...
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Chronic pain has been correctly described as the invisible crisis at the heart of contemporary life. Despite stunning advances in other areas of medical science, no similar breakthrough in the treatment of chronic pain has resulted from an exclusive focus on the body. Dr. James Alexander's young life was redefined by a tragic car accident in his late teens, and the chronic physical and emotional trauma inspired him to become a psychologist. Now pain-free,...
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What is a migraine? If you asked five different people who live with migraines, you'd probably get five different answers. Why? Because migraines are different for everyone. Your migraine attacks are unique and the experience you have during an attack won't be exactly the same as anyone else's. As there's no one way to get a migraine, there's also no one way to prevent or treat them. Researchers used to think migraine was a vascular condition, or...
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So, you had a Traumatic Brain Injury, suffered through Post-Concussion Syndrome, now you are faced with new challenges of battling an auto-immune disease or have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Perhaps doctors don't know what is wrong. Still, we are experiencing aches, stiffness, pain, brain fog and plenty of fatigue. Now what? Hasn't a brain injury been enough? Is there a connection? We need answers! We need help! Where do we go from here? We've...
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Do you suffer from chronic pain? Are you sick of being told that nothing else can be done? Beyond Pain offers a practical and proven pain-management program by an award-winning physiotherapist, and teaches you step-by-step how to overcome your pain and reclaim your life. By drawing on his own personal journey through chronic pain, as well as those of his clients, Anjelo Ratnachandra offers a cutting-edge book that is both a fascinating read, and an...
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FINALLY, A SIMPLE, DIETARY SOLUTION FOR A PAIN-FREE BACK! We are in a worldwide back pain epidemic. Twenty percent of the population is currently suffering from back pain, while 85 percent will suffer from it at some point in their lives. Back pain has become the number one reason for job disability, the number two reason for visits to the doctor, and the number three reason for hospitalization. But what if there were a simple solution? Dr. Todd Sinett...
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Empowering persons living with pain to be active in their pain management together with healthcare professionals and others. Focus not just on pain but also on the pain's impact on quality of life. Easy understandable overview of problems at hand for acknowledgement and validation of the pain experience. Living with ongoing pain is much more than living with the pain. It is a daily challenge to sleep, mood, tiredness, and much more. A challenge to...
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Through her extensive experience with pain clinics, author Phyllis Berger - a chronic pain sufferer herself - realized that pain relief was highly dependent on stress factors. She found relief could be more rapidly achieved by blocking pain with electrical currents and acupuncture, relieving anxiety and releasing emotions, and increasing pain-free movements with exercises, especially enjoyable exercises that build strength and endurance. Focusing...
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