Publisher's Synopsis
If you experience chronic pain (or care for a loved one who suffers from chronic pain), you know how challenging it can be to cope with on a daily basis. You have plenty of company as some 100 million people in the United States alone suffer from chronic pain. In this new book, Dr. George Beilin offers sound advice and a comprehensive strategy for handling the challenge of chronic pain and its many dimensions-physical, emotional, life stressors, negative thinking, and fortitude. Dr. Beilin's Pain Management Lifestyle model provides effective strategies for pain management, many of them drawn from his own experiences with chronic pain. The book's exercises will help you determine which of the strategies work best for you, and as you follow the Pain Management Lifestyle model, you'll help to reduce your chronic pain by changing your perspective, learning to see the pain as an opportunity for improving your life overall.
"Best wishes on your journey using Dr. Beilin's model for a Pain Management Lifestyle. You have suffered enough and no longer need to be saddled with the disabling and debilitating pain that has been torturing you. It is time to take control and seize the opportunity to live life fully and unencumbered by misery."
Steven Nisenbaum, PhD, JD
Medical Staff, Psychiatry Departments
Massachusetts General Hospital/School of Medicine
Assistant Clinical Professor in Public Health and Community Medicine,
Tufts Medical School
