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"Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries...
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"Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a...
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Are You Addicted? Has addiction taken over your life? Do you want to stop using painkillers, but shame and embarrassment keep you from reaching out for help? You are not alone-millions find themselves in the clutches of addiction. Michael McGee, M.D., an addiction psychiatrist, has treated thousands of people struggling with addiction. His message: You don't need to suffer-you can live a life free of addiction. In this book, Dr. McGee offers a helpful...
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This book was written to help all interested parties (eg, clinicians who treat pain, drug and medical-practice regulators, law-enforcement authorities and pharmacists) to sort out the clinical, regulatory, and ethical issues associated with the prescribing of opioid analgesics and to reduce the risk of medication misuse, abuse, and diversion.
5) The Back Pain Solution: A Patient's Guide to Laser Spine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Procedures, an
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Millions of people every year experience back pain. In the past, major surgery was often their only recourse. But today, for 80 to 90 percent of back pain sufferers, long-term relief no longer has to involve complicated medical procedures, extended hospital stays, and weeks of recovery.
In this informative, user-friendly guide, renowned spine surgeon Dr. Michael Hasz explores options for eliminating back pain without surgery or with minimally invasive...
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For people dealing with chronic pain, just getting through the day can be a trial. In many cases, your only treatment options are opioids and other analgesics and a puzzling choice of self-help options. But there's a way to reduce your suffering that isn't focused on drugs or expensive pain management programs. In The Language of Pain, Dr. Trevor Campbell provides practical tools for alleviating your agony. Based on years of experience, Dr. Campbell's...
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Read one of the most comprehensive books about the opioid epidemic: opioid overdose deaths, illegally manufactured fentanyl (IMF), synthetic opioid analogs, heroin, and how marijuana/cannabis affects the opioid epidemic. Read also about how drugs like cocaine methamphetamine and benzodiazepines ( BENZOS) affect the opioid epidemic, also learn about different medication treatment/programs such as naloxone, Suboxone, methadone, Safe Injection Sites/Supervised...
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Pain relief is an ongoing need for hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world who have been injured or are suffering from painful medical conditions. Many rely on their family doctor for opiate based pain pills, while others seek help from pain clinics. Unfortunately, both of these options often run their course, and for many there becomes a need to find the next chapter in their struggle for pain relief. As we now know, individuals who...
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To Cure Sometimes, To Relieve Often, And to Comfort Always. What moment in time do you decide you need to see a doctor? When do you seek the best help available to rid yourself of constant or intense pain? When It Hurts: Inside a Pain Management Doctor's Practice, takes readers behind the scenes of a pain management practice and the treatments available to those suffering from chronic pain. Through the recounting of true stories When It Hurts reveals...
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"For millions of Americans, migraine headaches are a debilitating part of every day. As top neurologists specializing in headache pain at Brigham and Women's Hospital and The Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH, and Paul Rizzoli, MD, are at the forefront of new research related to migraine management and treatment. In THE MIGRAINE SOLUTION, they'll provide clear, current, reliable information to meet the unmet needs of the headache...
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It's no secret that yoga increases muscular flexibility and strength, but you may not know that yoga is a proven treatment for back pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic pain conditions. Yoga also helps to ease the stress, anxiety, and depression that can create and reinforce pain, making you feel more comfortable in both your mind and your body.
Written by a yoga instructor and former chronic pain sufferer, Yoga
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Simple, quick yoga routines that stop back, shoulder, and neck pain for good! Back pain is the number one reason people stay home from work, and the best way to help chronic back pain is with exercise. Yoga, with its gentle stretching and breathing, is one of the most effective ways to combat back pain, along with reducing stress and improving overall fitness.
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Este libro es una herramienta para despertar inquietudes, para conocer mejor el propio cuerpo y ver cómo intérpretes de diferentes actividades artísticas pueden mejorar en su tarea diaria. Es también la llave con la que artistas de cualquier disciplina podrán conseguir un cuerpo más libre, aprendiendo a respirar correctamente, con el fin de que tanto estos profesionales como los espectadores que acuden a ver su trabajo puedan disfrutar íntegramente...
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At a time when Canada is struggling with a doctor-prescribed opioid crisis, this book offers a safe alternative for the millions of people who live with chronic pain: self-hypnosis, an ancient technique used today to soothe pain, both acute and long-lasting, with impressive results. This solution comes at a critical time: The typical prescription for pain - opioids - doesn't work for everyone, and comes with significant and even deadly side effects....
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When you are in pain, nothing is taken for granted.
The physical, emotional, and mental toll is tough to navigate, but Carmelita provides many examples from her arduous fight to help those in pain and the people, who love them to find peace and acceptance of their new circumstances. This includes exploring alternatives to medications, as well as the strong belief in faith to open pathways to healing.
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Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: "your biography influences your biology." While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it's necessary to take advantage of the mind's healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment...
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A three-step program that puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives.
"A must read for all individuals with migraine!"-Ronald J. Tusa, M.D., PH.D., Professor of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Dizziness and Balance Center, Emory University
Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine-because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches...
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