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Manage your pain : practical and positive ways of adapting to chronic pain

Contributor(s): Publication details: Sydney : HarperCollins, 2011.Edition: 3Description: xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780733330247 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.0472 23
Contents:
1. What is chronic pain? -- 2. Questions you may have -- 3. what's going on in your body, when pain is chronic? -- 4. What X-rays, CT and MRI scans tell us -- 5. Working with your doctor -- 6. Treatments for chronic pain -- 7. Using pacing to overcome the effects of chronic pain on activities -- 8. Setting goals -- 9. Recognising and overcoming obstacles to change -- 10. Stretching and exercising -- 11. Challenging ways of thinking about pain -- 12. Using relaxation -- 13. Attentional techniques - distraction and desensitising -- 14. Improving sleep -- Stress and problem solving -- 16. Interacting with those around you -- 17. Dealing with flare-ups and setbacks -- 18. Pain and work - 19. Pain management for seniors -- 20. Maintaining changes.
Summary: This is Australia's leading handbook on pain. The edition has been completely revised and updated to include the latest thinking and research.
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ABC logo at foot of title page.

Previous ed.: ABC Books, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. What is chronic pain? -- 2. Questions you may have -- 3. what's going on in your body, when pain is chronic? -- 4. What X-rays, CT and MRI scans tell us -- 5. Working with your doctor -- 6. Treatments for chronic pain -- 7. Using pacing to overcome the effects of chronic pain on activities -- 8. Setting goals -- 9. Recognising and overcoming obstacles to change -- 10. Stretching and exercising -- 11. Challenging ways of thinking about pain -- 12. Using relaxation -- 13. Attentional techniques - distraction and desensitising -- 14. Improving sleep -- Stress and problem solving -- 16. Interacting with those around you -- 17. Dealing with flare-ups and setbacks -- 18. Pain and work - 19. Pain management for seniors -- 20. Maintaining changes.

This is Australia's leading handbook on pain. The edition has been completely revised and updated to include the latest thinking and research.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Refer to the publisher's home page.

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