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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 616.0472 EAN: 9781591470496 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1591470498 Label: American Psychological Association (APA) Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 203 Publication Date: 2005-09 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Studio: American Psychological Association (APA) Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: If you suffer from chronic pain, this proven 10-step program brings hope and relief, showing you how gradual changes in specific behaviors can lead to great improvements in your ability to cope. Psychologists Turk and Winters’ recommendations are based on solid research that shows what works and on their success with thousands of patients. Unlike the authors of other pain books, they promise no miracle cures, but they do help you learn "not to let your body push you around" so life becomes enjoyable again. The key lessons in this book include • Uncovering some of the myths about pain and the deceptive ways it fools your body into unconstructive behavior • Pacing your activity, so you build strength without overdoing or underdoing it • Learning how to induce deep relaxation so you can begin to enjoy life again • Dealing with disturbed sleep and chronic fatigue • Improving your relations with family and friends, and soliciting support • Changing your habitual behaviors in ways that reduce pain • Combating the negative thinking that often accompanies pain • Regaining your self-confidence and trust in yourself • The power of goal-setting and humor • Dealing with the inevitable relapses and setbacks once improvement has set in Workbook exercises, behavior logs, and suggested readings help you integrate these lessons into your daily life and learn to live well despite pain. Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - it really worksI have been working through this book with a counselor who deals primarily with chronic pain patients. It is already starting to change my life, even though I am only on the third technique. After > 2 years trying to learn to live with chronic pain, I am finding techniques that are making a difference! Rating: - An essential book to help you surviveWhen chronic pain became my life I thought it was over. Sometimes things were so black I had no idea how I would go forth. It seems like the pain destroys everything and while it's unlikely you'll have what you once did these tips over you a chance at a life worth living. This book doesn't offer false hope or miracle cures or expensive things that you can't afford anyway. It offers tips, advice, and most of hope on regaining your life. Rating: - Don't waste your money...This book (and another) were recommended to me by a doctor in a pain clinic. The only way that this book would ever be helpful is if someone is new to chronic pain. Being that I'd been dealing with my chronic, intractable pain for 6 years prior to reading the book, most of the information contained in the book were dealing with issues I've long come to terms with. It also very much implies that taking narcotics in any way for a long term is not the solution for chronic pain, when that couldn't be ... Read More Rating: - Very workable programI have chronic pain syndrome as a result of a couple of spinal cord injuries. Sometimes it is more than a bit overwhelming. The hard part is the way the pain is always there. Sometimes it's worse; sometimes it's tolerable. But, it never stops. What I have found over the years is that if you suffer from chronic pain doctors are a sorry lot for the most part. If you have a good one, you are truly blessed. The ones I encountered seem they either don't understand your suffering, don't believe the degree ... Read More Rating: - Good basic book!This is a really good basic book for managing pain, it helps teach you to pace yourself, accept your condition, think differently and figure out how to do things for yourself. It is like a basic workbook. It doesn't judge you and talks about the levels of acceptance. I personally enjoy reading books that give me meaning for my experience. I have found that Kitchen Table Wisdom is a really meaningful book for me.
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