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.
Carol
"Dr. Cochran's compassion, as well as his comprehension of the scope of painfulness, is apparent throughout this book. His understanding of chronic pain helps temper some of the more difficult subjects he touches on. . . . His insights into the role of childhood abuse will be particularly important to those who have known that experience."
Carol, who suffers pain all over her body
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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
Professional Endorsements
- Keith W. Hagan, M.D.
- J. Thomas John Jr., M.D.
- A. S. Callahan III, M.D.
- Robert D. Riedel, M.D.
- H. Clay Newsome III, M.D.