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Price: £10.95
• Pain is one of the most common reasons why people seek medical help. Pain may last for weeks, yet doctors are often unable to find a cause or cure.
• If it persists for six months or more, the medical profession categorise it as chronic pain. But the quality of people’s lives can be eroded long before this, once pain becomes a day-to-day experience.
• That’s why pain experts now say that measures to manage pain should be introduced as soon as possible. Pain causes fear, anxiety and depression – and these reactions make the pain worse, forming a vicious circle.
• We have extraordinary reserves of power in our bodies which, if harnessed properly, can fight pain. To do this we need to resort to guerrilla warfare, stalking pain and then combating it. Above all, to fight pain, we need pain strategy, which may combine conventional medicine with alternative forms of treatment – from herbs to acupuncture, from yoga to relaxation techniques.
• In Escape From Pain, Oliver Gillie examines the causes of all kinds of pain, describes the various methods of treatment available and gives details of how to help yourself to alleviate pain and fight back.
Chapter 1: Fighting chronic pain
Includes eight-point pain avoidance code.
Chapter 2: The road back from pain
A nurse shows how to measure pain in a daily diary.
Chapter 3: Anxiety and stress reduction
Relaxation using a tape; massage; progressive relaxation; biofeedback; yoga; visualisation and guided imagery; music; distraction; aromatherapy; hypnotherapy; improving sleep.
Chapter 4: Physical activity and exercise
Includes gentle exercises to do at home.
Chapter 5: Drugs for pain relief
Non-narcotic drugs; non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); liniments, creams and rubs for local application; narcotic drugs; trycyclic anti-depressant drugs; neuroleptic drugs; anti-convulsants; tranquillisers.
Chapter 6: Herbal treatments for pain
Anodynes – the herbal pain relievers; herbal headache remedies; herbal digestive remedies; herbal anti-inflammatories; applications and rubs for localised pain; homeopathic remedies; list of herbal suppliers.
Chapter 7: Acupuncture
Types of pain that are relieved by acupuncture; alternative forms of acupuncture.
Chapter 8: Physical treatments
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation; electric stimulation of the spinal cord; liss electric stimulators; magnetic field treatment; other physical treatments.
Chapter 9: Hot and cold treatments
Which types of pain respond?; heat treatment at home; infra-red radiation; alternate hot and cold; warm baths; saunas; ice packs; deep heat treatments.
Chapter 10: Dietary control of inflammation
What to eat; minimal change strategy; maximum effect strategy.
Chapter 11: Headache and migraine
Chapter 12: Painful medical conditions
Diabetic neuropathy; Raynaud’s disease; rheumatoid arthritis.
Chapter 13: Nerve pain
Trigminal neuralgia; glossopharyngeal neuralgia; shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia; spinal root pain.
Chapter 14: Back pain
Simple backache; chronic back pain; surgery for back pain; neck pain; posture; shoulder pain; exercise to relieve pain in the back, neck, buttocks, hip or shoulder.
Chapter 15: Muscle pain
Myofascial pain; fibromyalgia.
Chapter 16: Pain in the arms or legs
Repetitive strain injury; peripheral vascular disease; phantom limb pain.
Chapter 17: Pain in the chest or abdomen
Pain in the chest; pain in the abdomen; irritable bowel syndrome; indigestion and gastritis; period pain; endometriosis; painful sexual intercourse.
Chapter 18: Cancer pain
Surgical ways of relieving pain.
Chapter 19: Pain relief after surgery
Followed by a list of helpful contacts.
