Understanding Chronic Pain
A Doctor Talks To His Patients
Understanding Chronic Pain is a personal narrative, a record of my passage among victims of chronic pain and the discoveries that have come from those encounters. I write for physicians, nurses, therapists, and caregivers, but mostly, I write for you who suffer the disease.
Dr. Robert T. Cochran Jr., M.D.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School, Robert T. Cochran Jr., M.D. completed his residency in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Texas and Duke University. He established his private medical practice in Nashville in 1963, where he continues to work today.
Serving as the co-director of the Pain Center at Centennial Hospital in Nashville in the 1990s, he built a reputation as a leader in chronic pain management. Treating thousands of pain patients throughout his 40-year practice has enabled Dr. Cochran to explore the commonality in chronic pain sufferers, as well as understand the real scope of painfulness.
Dr. Cochran uniquely incorporates the fields of neurology, internal medicine, and psychiatry in deriving insightful - sometimes, disturbing - yet hopeful conclusions for the chronic pain sufferer. He brings to light intriguing new treatment strategies that should be of interest to the medical community and chronic pain sufferers alike.
Dr. Cochran and his wife, Donna, reside in Nashville. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
Dr. Robert T. Cochran Jr., M.D.
Understanding Chronic Pain
Table of Contents
- Failure to Recover
- What is Chronic Pain?
- Identifiers and Risk Factors
- Mind-Soul Disease
- Drugs for Pain
- Memory
- Triavil
- The Painful Brain
- Sexual Abuse
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Kindling
- Substance Abuse
- Bipolarity
- Chronic Fatigue
- Migraine
- Neurogenic Inflammation
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Summing Up