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.
David D. Duncan
"For far too long, chronic pain sufferers have been considered as just another difficult statistic. In many previous books on the subject, very little empathy for their tortuous plight has been shown. This is no longer true. With the publication of Understanding Chronic Pain , Dr. Robert T. Cochran, Jr. effectively puts a personal face on this debilitating disease. His compassion and determination to actually help his patients control their intense levels of pain shines through on every well-written page. By examining actual case studies, we learn emphatically that no one should suffer needlessly when legitimate pain control options are available."
David D. Duncan, author of Familiar Faces: The Art of Mort Drucker, chronic pain patient for nearly twenty years.
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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.