Paintracking: Your Personal Guide to Living Well With Chronic Pain

Description

This is an understanding, insightful, and practical guide to living with chronic pain. Research indicates that nearly 1 in 7 people in the UK suffer some form of debilitating chronic pain. People coping with chronic pain often spend considerable time, energy, and money searching for relief and visiting a multiplicity of doctors. When the source of the pain is unclear or difficult to diagnose, their experiences are additionally frustrating and exhausting. "Pain Tracking" offers a hands-on approach to improving life with chronic pain, whatever the underlying cause, by providing a systematic method for readers to track their pain and understand how their body responds in different situations and to different therapies. Written in a clear and accessible style, and filled with insights and empathy, "Pain Tracking" offers realistic hope to those suffering from chronic pain.

Deborah Barrett is a clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina.

""With great empathy and insight into the prejudices that many patients encounter from physicians and caretakers, as well as their own resistance to exercise and social activities, [Deborah] Barrett urges readers to direct their care through recording patterns that emerge in the up-and-down cycle typical of many chronic pain sufferers.... Her encyclopedic guide to leading a satisfying life will help readers tame what she calls 'pain's cruel whims.'" --Publishers Weekly "Presents a wide variety of tracking options.... Barrett's counsel on all things chronic-pain related is important. But it is also great advice for anyone who recognizes that each advancing birthday beyond middle age presents greater physical adjustments." --Booklist "This wide-ranging, well-written book aims to empower readers and will be of interest to chronic pain sufferers, care-givers, and health-care professionals. An in-depth look at how individuals can help themselves, this book is a powerful motivator and can help support significant life changes. Highly recommended." --Library Journal