Mayo Clinic On Chronic Pain: Lead a More Active and Productive Life With Answers from the World-RenownedmayoClinic (Mayo Clinic on Health)
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Mayo Clinic On Chronic Pain: Lead a More Active and Productive Life With Answers from the World-RenownedmayoClinic (Mayo Clinic on Health)
A valuable series drawing from the knowledge of physicians at the world-famous Mayo Clinic continues with a comprehensive resource on chronic pain control, discussing lifestyle changes that can ease the pain, presenting techniques for coping with it, and more. Original.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Cool Alternature Therapies:
You'd think the Mayo Clinic would be hardline Western medicine. But this book rocks. There are alternative treatments and everything.
Managing Pain Before It Manages You:
This is THE chronic pain management book according to my doctor, and I'm a believer. I lead a more active and productive life because of his work. What you may not "like" about this book is the emphasis on the patient's responsibility. Once a proper diagnosis is reached, the PATIENT must do things to get better. * Stopping what is was that caused the pain to become chronic, * Coping with overweight, * Dealing with uncontrolled anger, depression. * Using the mind to relax. *... more info
A LAUNDRY LIST OF PAIN TREATMENTS BUT NO EVALUATION OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS:
This book was really boring to read for me. It spent a lot of time trying to define what pain was and all, and then it went to this big list of alternative treatments - they just listed all the possible treatments, but they didn't evaluate them further, they didn't show how effective each treatment was, you were like supposed to guess one - try it and if it helped you great and if not then try another one. - then the whole premise is to block out the pain mentally, but the problem with pain is there is... more info
Too General and Extremely Topical:
This book reminds me of many magazine covers: it promises a lot more information than it delivers. There is very little of any specific help here. Worse, it sounds like it is written by someone who has no real idea what it is like to live with debilitating chronic pain. Run 5K??!! How about, I can't walk around the block? There is no help offered for people with pain that is more than moderate in nature. Topics that should receive some real attention are skimmed over in a matter of a couple of pages or even... more info
