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Language
English
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"Chronic pain is an epidemic. 50 million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain. Psychotherapist Alan Gordon was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One evening, while completing his medical training in Pakistan, Haider Warraich went to the hospital gym to work out. He was in the middle of a set when he heard the sound of a loud click in his back. His body went limp, the weight held above his chest came crashing down, and Haider was rushed into the hospital, now suddenly a patient where just a few hours earlier he had been a doctor. A decade later, Warraich is now an internist in Boston, and...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The chronic pain experience is increasingly becoming a common experience for many people around the world. What is known about the experience of pain is that suffering is compounded by not only the physical sensation, but also the emotional pain that is inherent in a long term illness. Multidisciplinary pain clinics are working to address all aspects of a patient's chronic pain. Different modalities are being considered as treatment; however, there...
