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.
Woody Paul
"Dr. Cochran is deeply aware of the person inside the pain. He understands how patients like myself who have experienced pain can feel despondent, depressed, and sleep-deprived but still have to get up and slug away at a whole new day of real life problems plus carry all that pain around. His insightful diagnosis has helped me live a much more pain-free existence."
Grammy Award-Winning Performer Woody Paul (Riders in the Sky)
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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.