Physical Pain

The Pain Companion is a practical guidebook for people living with chronic pain written by someone who has endured debilitating pain for many years and found ways to thrive and enjoy life despite the challenges. The book is intended to be, quite literally, a companion through pain, validating and acknowledging its myriad challenges and offering a pathway to greater well-being, ease, and comfort.

A comprehensive resource for yoga teachers, pilates instructors, and movement therapists--exercises, ergonomic adjustments, and daily-living activities for back pain, scoliosis, disc disease, and 18 other spinal conditions Safe Movement for All Spines is an essential guide for all movement...

This audiobook is designed to take you through a journey of healing for managing your chronic pain and elevating your life. It starts with some information about chronic pain and an overview of different conditions that cause chronic pain. This is followed by describing the impact of chronic pain on life, and how to manage it through elevating your life force with healthy living skills and mental well-being practices.

Author Harry Nelson has been on the front lines of behavioral health and medical advocacy for two decades. He is the leading healthcare legal expert in the country addressing the worsening problems in how we treat pain and addiction. His insights have earned the attention of lead policymakers and regulators at every federal agency touching the opioid crisis. He has been one of the few voices in the room with direct experience of where we are going wrong.

After enduring a life-threatening illness as a child, Mike Rome became a standout student-athlete in high school and college, during which he endured a series of injuries that put him in a state of chronic pain throughout his career. Nevertheless, he has thrived personally and professionally. In this audiobook, Mike offers 18 practical strategies for performing well despite your physical pain. The message of this audiobook is not about how to get rid of all your pain. It's about mastering it.

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous 12-step fellowship, Stories of Hope presents the tools and principles of the 12 steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope.

Back and shoulder pain is often the result we endure because of our modern world, sitting at computers, hunched over smartphones, and slouching while we read or watch TV. This book explores ways that people can damage their muscles and options to overcome poor habits and strengthen their muscles. This includes suggestions for avoiding repetitive, prolonged tasks, along with better sitting and sleeping positions. The information and illustrated exercises provide guidance to take care of yourself at home to create a healthier lifestyle.

I wrote this audiobook out of my own experience with knee pain. I have included the things that worked for me and have proved most successful in helping others. Now you can use these strategies to develop stronger and healthier pain-free knees for years to come!

In Living beyond Pain, a physician and a therapist offer a whole person approach to pain management, addressing the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of pain and providing alternative strategies that don't rely on opioids. Through education, pain triumph stories, daily guided cognitive activity, and as-needed pain rescue techniques, listeners will reprogram their neurologic pathways, increase functioning, and experience improvement in their symptoms.

Are you exhausted from constantly battling chronic pain without any lasting relief? Do you struggle daily to manage flare-ups, feeling isolated and misunderstood by those around you? Do you long for a path that allows you to live a balanced, fulfilling life despite your pain? You're not alone. Millions struggle with chronic pain every day, desperate for solutions that go beyond medication and doctor visits. They seek knowledge, empowerment, and a holistic approach to reclaim their lives.

Can you really cure chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or therapy? Surprisingly, often the answer is yes. While chronic pain can have a physical cause, this book, written by a leading UK physiotherapist and chronic pain specialist, reveals how very real, even debilitating, pain can frequently be caused by our brain in response to repressed or avoided emotions as a result of current and even past experiences. This process is at the root of many common complaints.

La mayoría de los pacientes remitidos a fisioterapia por problemas de dolores (generalmente de cabeza, cuello y espalda) tienen dolores de cabeza consecuentes.... Se publican muchas obras literarias sobre dolores de cabeza. Aquí se presentan enfoques simples, útiles, prácticos y poco convencionales que no se conocen comúnmente.

I suffered from severe and frequent migraines that disrupted my life and made me miserable. Throughout years of herbal and nutritional training, wildcrafting and making herbal recipes, all the while dealing with migraine headaches, I learned effective ways to not only treat migraines, but to prevent them as well. I wrote this book to share with migraine sufferers who may be looking for relief with gentle, holistic treatments that work to eliminate the problem, not just the symptoms.

Do you want to be slim, healthy and fit? Are you over 40 and confused about what your exercise plan should look like? Are you discouraged and ready to give up? If so, Strength Training for Life is the perfect book for you! This book will teach you everything you need to know about weight lifting and muscle building for achieving your body's natural potential. It will show you exactly how often and at what pace to exercise and help you design a personalized fitness plan that will show real, visible results!

Learn to release tight muscles, reduce pain and improve posture with gentle somatic movement. Whether your goal is to manage the aches and pains of daily life, to improve your posture after hunching over a desk all week, or to keep up with the grandkids, this empowering system is designed to help you move well through life and keep doing the activities you love to do for as long as possible.

In Pain: A Love Story, Serena Sterling, PsyD, explores how repressed emotions can manifest into physical and emotional pain, even acute and chronic illness. Dr. Sterling investigates the development of her own juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, a physical response to the pressures placed on her by a high-performing family.

One big secret to growing older with confidence, dignity, and style is hidden in two words: Chair Yoga. Yoga has a host of health benefits that improve the quality of life of older adults. There are forms of yoga that are very gentle on your body and easy to do, and you only need a chair to do it.

Living with chronic pain can feel endless and exhausting, especially when nothing seems to help. Mastering Chronic Pain offers hope and a new path forward. In this clear and compassionate guide, orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Matthew Bennett, MD and pain specialist Dr. Sahar Swidan, PharmD introduce an approach grounded in neuroscience and functional medicine. Instead of masking pain, they show how to work with your body’s biological systems to promote real healing.

Sneaky and often silent, many dental issues may go undiagnosed for years, if ever. Mercury and other toxic heavy metals used in fillings, crowns, bridges, partials, dentures, and implants continually seep into every cell in our bodies creating heavy metal poisoning that triggers disease. Whether or not we know it, over half of us harbor gum infections.

My first migraine hit me in high school, and I was unsure what to do. I have a pretty high pain tolerance from being picked on, beat up, and the everyday of having older siblings. I can put up with bumps, bruises, and scrapes, but one day when I got home from school a migraine hit me like a spike in my brain. I had bright lights in my field of view which I found out about later was called an “aura” then I started to see stars. Then the PAIN HIT!