Pain – My Friend

By Edward M. Guziejka

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0741407183
• ISBN13: 9780741407184
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Infinity Publishing (PA)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A doctor told him he was a hopeless case.

Pain--My Friend, by Ed Guziejka, is a groundbreaking book, which tells the experience of a 40 year old man with disabling pain in his back and elsewhere. A doctor, in effect, tells him that he is a hopeless case. Another doctor refers him to a Pain Unit, where he embarks on an arduous road to recovery. The staff there consists of experts in the techniques of physical and psychological therapies. The reader gets an insider's view of the way these treatments are carried out, along with Ed's emotional reactions to them. He works hard under the staff's direction, and the results are dramatic. As a physician, specializing in psychiatry, I found this book clear and fascinating. It gives an inside-out view of psychosomatic medicine. It should be read by all health professionals as well as by all who suffer from chronic pain.

Pain--My Friend

Pain--My Friend, by Ed Guziejka, is a groundbreaking book, which tells the experience of a 40 year old man with disabling pain in his back and elsewhere. A doctor, in effect, tells him that he is a hopeless case. Another doctor refers him to a Pain Unit where he embarks on the arduous road to recovery. The staff there consists of experts in the techniques of physical and psychological therapies. The reader gets an insider's view of the way these treatments are carried out, along with Ed's emotional reactions to them. He works hard under the staff's direction and the results are dramatic. As a physician, specializing in psychiatry, I found this book clear and fascinating. It gives an inside-out view of psychosomatic medicine. It should be read by all health professionals as well as by all who suffer from chronic pain.

If you suffer from chronic pain

I met the author of this book at a writers' club where he read a few pages from his book. I decided to buy it right then because I come across many people with chronic pain. I have never seen a book about someone's personal experience with this problem before. I just finished the book. Reading it you live through his stay at the Pain Unit with him. It is very easy to read and picture the events. There are no long-winded discussions of theories. Just the facts. I think this is a worthwhile book for anyone who works with or suffers from chronic pain, especially low back pain. It shows you that there is hope.