Proven exercises and techniques for dealing with pain

Your compassionate guide to conquering pain and living a full life

Do you suffer from chronic pain? This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the newest pain-relieving techniques. You''ll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you.

Discover how to:

• Diagnose your pain

• Build an anti-pain medical team

• Prevent or minimize pain attacks

• Explore alternative therapies

• Make helpful lifestyle changes

Although pain is personal, the search for solutions by frustrated sufferers is universal. The American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) estimates that almost 100 million Americans suffer from some form of chronic pain. Written by a medical expert on the leading edge of chronic-pain management, this information-packed book helps those dealing with this elusive but debilitating problem. Topics include a discussion of both traditional and alternative pain therapies, the causes of pain, techniques for dealing with pain, side effects of pain-reducing medications, and more. The book also addresses problems of pediatric pain and gender-based pain relief.