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.
Robert D. Riedel, M.D.
"An interesting and informative text. . . . Although written for those who suffer chronic pain, it should be required reading for all physicians. Were the medical community to develop an appreciation for the concepts so well presented by Dr. Cochran, the lives of painful patients would be greatly improved."
Robert D. Riedel, M.D.
Anesthesiologist
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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.