10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life

Behavioral medicine expert Blake H. Tearnan, Ph.D. presents 10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How To Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life, a straightforward guide to the most effective pain management techniques. 10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain does not deny the value or unilaterally condemn the use of painkiller drugs, but rather teaches the reader alternative methods that can be used in conjunction with medication, or by themselves. Chapters discuss better ways to communicate with doctors and learn which treatment options are most likely to prove beneficial, enhancing emotional well-being, improving one's sleep, the option of biomedical treatments, changing one's nonproductive beliefs about pain through personal experimentation, and much more. A step-by-step demystification process of pain and one's options for dealing with it, highly recommended.

I have suffered from back pain for the past 4 years after being injured in a car accident. I have tried everything from pain meds to acupuncture, even hypnosis. My doctor recommended this book and it really helped. If you follow the advice on a daily basis, you learn to control your pain-it no longer controls you. I'm not letting my back pain interfere with the quality of the rest of my life!