Chronic pain is unlike acute pain, it lasts beyond the time necessary for healing and resists normal treatment. The primary indicator of chronic pain is not how long it persists, but whether it remains long after it should have disappeared. No one patient feels pain in the same way and yet in veterinary medicine the patient's pain is generally assessed based on a single standard.
Bowen is a minister with a very simple message: quit complaining. If you do, you'll be happier and healthier. Hence his Complaint-Free World challenge; the goal is to stop for 21 consecutive days. Why 21? That's how long it takes to break a habit, according to Bowen, who has appeared on Oprah and The Today Show discussing his challenge. And while there's no scientific proof his program works, he includes testimonials from people who've stopped their chronic carping and now lead more positive lives.
Pain and Depression - An Interdisciplinary Patient-Centered Approach
Pain is the most common physical complaint while depression is the second most debilitating chronic medical condition. The co-occurrence of pain and depression is well known but a detailed understanding of their phenomenology, interrelationship, and effective therapies remains speculative. This book provides a synthetic approach to the evaluation and treatment of patients with chronic pain and depression that will generate therapeutic optimism and lead clinicians to improve quality of life and restore function.
The Fibromyalgia Cookbook: More than 140 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Fight Chronic Fatigue
Find Relief the Healthy, Natural, and Easy Way from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis If you or someone in your life suffers from fibromyalgia, this is an essential resource. While drugs and pain suppressants are available for relief, The Fibromyalgia Cookbook offers a healthy, natural method of subduing the pain and exhaustion through easy recipes and cooking tips.
Does viral hepatitis merit a 649-page, 10-lb review? It certainly does. Readers and the publisher appear to agree, because Viral Hepatitis has now appeared in a second edition. Hepatitis viruses are important agents of disease worldwide, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), which produce chronic infections, affect hundreds of millions of people. These two viruses cause most cases of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer in the world.
