Beyond Pain : Symptoms, Dignosis, and Treatment Options of Chronic Pain Disorders

by David Israelson and Angela Mailis-Gagnon

"The range of topics covered in Beyond Pain is very wide, and one is likely to find almost any question about pain that one has ever puzzled over explored somewhere in its pages."-From the Foreword by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143055569
• ISBN13: 9780143055563
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press Jul-01-2005
• Weight: 65.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Beyond chronic pain

Being a chronic pain sufferer, this book has helped me cope with the debilitating pain. Very well written in layman terms. The writer demonstrates that there is hope for the future.

A fine study which outlines many different causes, experiences, and solutions surrounding pain

Beyond Pain: Making The Mind-body Connection isn't a scholarly analysis of pain management but a set of firsthand stories of patients and problems which are used to illustrate the condition of chronic pain and the complexities surrounding its management. Case studies from the authors' own practices and experiences describes options, techniques to block pain, lasting effects of chronic pain, and how pain experiences differ between patients. A fine study which outlines many different causes, experiences, and solutions surrounding pain.

Excellent, important, and useful

"Beyond Pain" is an informative and important book for any person in chronic pain. Well-written, readable, sensible, and up-to-date, it illuminates general aspects of pain theory and treatment while providing fascinating case studies / anecdotes. The mind and the body are shown to be not only interrelated but inseparable. And the qualifications of Dr. Mailis-Gagnon are indisputably impeccable. I suffer from chronic pain myself. I have read a lot of books on chronic pain of various types, even a couple of medical texts, but I found this book newly informative and mind-expanding. This book is aimed to a general reader; no prior medical knowledge is assumed.This book will be useful for anyone in chronic pain, including sufferers of fibromyalgia, myofascial or muscle pain, neuropathic or nerve pain, back pain; women, men, Canadians, whomever. It will even give you a few good laughs.Three words: READ THIS BOOK!