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Multimethod Assessment of Chronic Pain (Psychology Practitioner Guidebooks)

Paul Karoly, Mark P. Jensen

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A Handbook of Clinical Techniques in the Management of Chronic Pain

J. R. Wedley

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Aimed at newly appointed consultant anaesthetists expected to run a pain clinic at their hospital, this highly illustated handbook will guide anaesthetists through the many techniques used in the relief of chronic pain. Anaesthetists in training receive a widely differing degree of instruction and this book contains concise guidance on how to perform pain relief procedures that they may have never seen previously.

Conquering Pain

R. Prust

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Pain can be a friend...or an enemy. When it signals that something is wrong, pain can be the body's first line of defense. But some types of pain -- the chronic pain that may plague us for months or years -- can be a terrible drain on our physical and emotional health. Even at mild levels, chronic pain can sometimes make life seem unbearable. Conquering Pain is your weapon in the war against pain. With this practical and clearly written guide, those who suffer from chronic pain can have new hope for relief. Included is up-to-date information on * varieties of chronic pain including arthritis, cancer pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, migraine headaches, muscular pain and other problems * traditional and alternative treatments * prescription and nonprescription drugs * ways to avoid misdiagnosis and obtain medical help * how to cope with the psychological toll of chronic pain * new developments in pain management * and more

'I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything': Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]

A. Werner, L.W. Isaksen, K. Malterud

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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this study, we explore issues of self and shame in illness accounts from women with chronic pain. We focused on how these issues within their stories were shaped according to cultural discourses of gender and disease. A qualitative study was conducted with in-depth interviews including a purposeful sampling of 10 women of varying ages and backgrounds with chronic muscular pain. The women described themselves in various ways as 'strong', and expressed their disgust regarding talk of illness of other women with similar pain. The material was interpreted within a feminist frame of reference, inspired by narrative theory and discourse analysis. We read the women's descriptions of their own (positive) strength and the (negative) illness talk of others as a moral plot and argumentation, appealing to a public audience of health personnel, the general public, and the interviewer: As a plot, their stories attempt to cope with psychological and alternative explanations of the causes of their pain. As performance, their stories attempt to cope with the scepticism and distrust they report having been met with. Finally, as arguments, their stories attempt to convince us about the credibility of their pain as real and somatic rather than imagined or psychological. In several ways, the women negotiated a picture of themselves that fits with normative, biomedical expectations of what illness is and how it should be performed or lived out in 'storied form' according to a gendered work of credibility as woman and as ill. Thus, their descriptions appear not merely in terms of individual behaviour, but also as organized by medical discourses of gender and diseases. Behind their stories, we hear whispered accounts relating to the medical narrative about hysteria; rejections of the stereotype medical discourse of the crazy, lazy, illness-fixed or weak woman.

Managing constraint: the experience of people with chronic pain [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]

A. Miles, H.V. Curran, S. Pearce, L. Allan

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This study describes the experience of people with chronic pain. Using the method of grounded theory, 29 chronic pain sufferers were interviewed at an outpatient pain clinic. A model depicting the basic social psychological process of maintaining a normal life through constraint was developed. This process revolved around people's perception of the constraints imposed by pain: bodily constraint (constraint on the body and its relationship to the environment); activity constraint (the constraint on what people could do); and identity constraint (the constraint on what people could be). The degree to which pain had challenged what people had previously accepted as 'normal' was illustrated through their evaluation of the impact of pain. The conclusion of this process of evaluation reflected how people coped with the constraints of pain-whether they were assimilated, accommodated, confronted or subverted. In assimilation, the constraints were absorbed and normal life maintained. In accommodation, the constraints were accepted and normal life re-defined. In confrontation, the constraints were rejected and pre-pain identities and activities pursued despite leading to increased pain levels. In subversion, attempts were made to retain pre-pain identities, and although pain levels were minimized, activities were altered to a significant degree. The limitations imposed by pain often form the focus of people's coping efforts, rather than the pain per se. The desire to retain pre-pain 'normal' lifestyles may underlie people's use of coping strategies that exacerbate pain intensity and pain-related disability. Future research needs to explore both the relationship between adjustment to pain and adjustment to the restrictions associated with ageing, and the role of body techniques and identity management in adjustment to pain in order to understand factors which may promote pain acceptance.

Epidemiology of Pain: A Report of the Task Force on Epidemiology

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The Handbook of Chronic Pain

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Social Relations and Chronic Pain (Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health)

Ranjan Roy

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Book Series: PLENUM SERIES IN REHABILITATION AND HEALTH

While there is widespread recognition among experts that biological, psychological, and social factors influence the experience of pain, for reasons unclear the social component has failed to attract much attention. Recognizing the larger social reality in the background of each patient, this book fills a major gap in the literature by incorporating the social dimension - most significantly, the family - in the overall assessment and treatment of pain.

:60 Second Chronic Pain Relief: The Quickest Way to Soften the Throb, Cool the Burn, Ease the Ache (:60 Second)

Peter Lehndorff

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Former head of pain clinic shares new techniques that have helped thousands of sufferers.

Acceptance-based treatment for persons with complex, long standing chronic pain: a preliminary analysis of treatment outcome in comparison to a waiting ... from: Behaviour Research and Therapy]

L.M. McCracken, K.E. Vowles, C. Eccleston

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This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The concept of acceptance is receiving increased attention as an alternate approach to the suffering that is often associated with persistent and disabling pain. This approach differs from established treatments in that it does not principally focus on reducing pain, but on reducing the distressing and disabling influences of pain as they concern important areas in patients' lives. The present analyses represent a preliminary evaluation of an acceptance-based approach to chronic pain within an interdisciplinary treatment program. One hundred and eight patients with complex chronic pain conditions completed treatment and provided data for the current study. Treatment was conducted in a 3- or 4-week residential or hospital-based format. It included a number of exposure-based, experiential, and other behavior change methods focused on increasing (a) engagement in daily activity regardless of pain and (b) willingness to have pain present without responding to it. Significant improvements in emotional, social, and physical functioning, and healthcare use were demonstrated following treatment. The majority of improvements continued at 3-months post-treatment. Improvements in most outcomes during treatment were correlated with increases in acceptance, supporting the proposed process of treatment.