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.
Serena
"I have been treated by many doctors, most of whom look down on patients with chronic pain. But when I met Dr. Cochran, I left his office with a huge high because for the first time in forty-two years, a professional was telling me, 'I can help you!' Today my life is much improved thanks to his thoughtful treatment. Understanding Chronic Pain is an awesome book filled with compassion and insight."
Serena, who suffers fibromyalgia
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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.