Navigating Life with Chronic Pain, Sara Clayton, PhD
Navigating Life with Chronic Pain, Sara Clayton, PhD
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Navigating Life with Chronic Pain

Author: Sara Clayton, PhD, Lindsay Zilliox, MD, Robert A. Lavin, MD

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020


Synopsis

Navigating Life with Chronic Pain provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family, and caregivers face when confronted by chronic pain. No two pain experiences are the same, so your chronic pain depends on where you have pain, how long you have experienced pain, and how the pain symptoms developed. Everyone needs a customized approach because pain symptoms, other medical conditions, past pain experiences, beliefs about pain, environment, ability to cope with the pain, and financial and social support (like family, friends, and caregivers) are different for every person.

This book aims to provide clear and reliable information about chronic pain, including "what" (definition), "how" (pathophysiology), and "why" (etiology). The authors expertly guide the listener through current approaches to diagnoses, including a review of diagnostic tests, as well as a comprehensive, integrated approach to chronic pain treatment. Through the use of patient stories, you get real-world experiences and advice on navigating the day-to-day challenges of chronic pain. You will learn how to take control of your chronic pain using a variety of tools, like behavioral, exercise and nutritional approaches, medications, alternative treatments (yoga and tai chi), and injections or surgery.

About Sara Clayton, PhD

Sara Clayton, PhD, is the director of pain psychology at VA Maryland Health Care Services and a member of the Department of Neurology at the Baltimore VAMC in Baltimore, Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adriell

Is your chronic pain new to you? Does your doctor listen to you? Are you unfamiliar with Google? Then this book may be for you. Otherwise, it is pablem. An entry-level pandering of well-meaning doctors who don’t know what it means to be a chronic pain patient. And certainly don’t know what it’s like......more