The Pain Detective : : Every Ache Tells a Story : Understanding how Stress and Emotional Hurt Become Chronic Physical Pain

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Musculoskeletal pain, stress, wound healing, and mind-body relationships : a new perspective -- She figured it out : a case of back pain -- I'm so tired of the chronic fatigue and pain -- Elbow grease -- Tears and fibromyalgia syndrome -- Children of the bottle : alcohol and other pain risk factors -- Shame pain : I can't get no job satisfaction -- Clenched fists : posttraumatic stress and fear -- Abusive pain and vitamin hope -- Instant relief from medication, or treatment for the mind is hard to find -- The executive asshole syndrome, or busy-people arm-pain syndrome -- Wrapping up : pain, disability, society, and the individual.
"This volume explores what physicians often ignore - how psychological and social issues can influence health, illness, pain, and recovery. Chronic pain is one of the most common medical complaints worldwide. Most maddening are aches that recur, but for which medicine cannot find a reason or propose a permanent solution. Billions of dollars are doled out in search of the right pills or treatments to dull the pain, often to no avail." ""Pain is everywhere and everyone is talking about it," says Dr. Hillel Finestone, M.D., researcher and rehabilitation specialist. The key to understanding causes and solutions for many apparently mysterious, recurring aches, he explains, lies in understanding the mind-body relationship and the "real meaning" behind symptoms with no immediate obvious cause." "Taking the reader into several diagnostic sessions to illustrate what he sees as a "detective" process to find the source of pain, Finestone explains how psychological and social issues can influence health and healing, for better or worse. Low back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, and even work-related pains are delved into. In addition to vignettes that illustrate the ideas discussed and show dramatic incidences of how healing the mind can also heal the body, Finestone uses unique and useful diagrams to explain how mind and body are physiologically connected and reactive to each other."--BOOK JACKET.

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