AUTHORS
BRADLEY S. GALER, M.D.
Co-founder of American Academy of
Neurology Pain Medicine
Special Interest Group,
Named one of the leading doctors in pain management by the
Best Doctors in America
CHARLES E. ARGOFF, M.D.
Co-founder of American Academy of
Neurology Pain Medicine
Special Interest Group,
Professor of Neurology, Albany Medical College;
Director, Comprehensive Pain Program, Albany Medical
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Back Pain
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Neck Pain
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Osteoarthritis
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Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Migraines
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Tension-Type Headaches
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Rebound Headache Syndrome
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Fibromyalgia
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Cancer Pain
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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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Painful Polyneuropathy
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Shingles
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Postherpetic Neuralgia
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GROUND BREAKING STRATEGIES FOR ELIMINATING THE
PAIN OF
ARTHRITIS, BACK AND NECK CONDITIONS, MIGRAINES,
DIABETIC
NEUROPATHY, AND CHRONIC ILLNESS
If you are one of the millions of people
suffering from chronic pain, it can often seem as if your discomfort is
running -- and ruining -- your life. Maybe you've even been told that "it's
all in your head" and you just have to endure the debilitating effects
of migraines, arthritis, back and neck pain, and chronic illness. You
can feel good again! Defeat Chronic Pain Now! is your
survival guide to preventing, reversing, and managing chronic pain.
Referencing breakthrough medical research, two
of the leading pain specialists in the field, Bradley S. Galer, M.D., and
Charles E. Argoff, M.D., present hidden and little known causes of common
chronic pain conditions, how to avoid misdiagnosis, and the latest
treatments under development including:
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Myofascial Dysfunction: The real (undiagnosed!)
culprit in 90% of
Back and Neck Pain
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DMARDS and NSAIDS: Two breakthrough drugs that
promise significant relief for Arthritis
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Nutraceuticals: The natural wonder treatment for
Peripheral Neuropathy
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Focal heat trigger-point (FHTP) therapy: The new
drug-free approach to
Migraine relief
The first practical book on integrative
pain management, Defeat Chronic Pain Now! gives you the
latest information on surgical options, new medications, complementary
therapies, and psychological interventions that can be used to rewire
your body for pain relief. For each condition and procedure, you'll
learn what to expect in the hospital and the doctor's office, and what
self-therapy solutions you can do on your own. Detailed illustrations
and easy-to-understand descriptions help you select the best treatment
options to improve your unique type of pain and take back your life.
We
dedicate this book to our patients -- even those we have yet to meet -- for it's you who have taught us more than we ever learned in medical
school, in our residency, or in our pain fellowships. We only hope
we have given as much to you as you have given to us.
To that end, we've written in layman's
language as much as possible throughout the book, particularly in Part
1, which addresses the specific pain conditions in detail. Why?
Because this book is our offering to you -- the patient. You are
the one living with chronic pain, and it is your right to have the
information you need -- in a way that you can easily understand -- so
that you can be an active participant in resolving it with your own
physician. Part 1 includes chapters covering specific types of
pain. We'll tell you what treatments have been shown to work and
highlight the most cutting-edge developments. In Part 2, we cover
treatments and therapies in much more detail -- and with a bit more
medical-speak, but don't worry, this important information is also
written to serve you, the patient, the ultimate "decider" of care.
In Part 3 we discuss what pain is, why we all have pain, how one
experiences it, how factors like stress affect it, and how your your
nervous system works. While there may be a few sections that bring
back unpleasant memories of high school biology, this section teaches
you (in easy-to-understand words) the key basics behind how pain works
in the body. Again, our aim is to help you by giving you in "plain
English" the most important information about pain that we have learned
over our multiple decades of being pain doctors.
We wish you all the best, and hope you find some pain relief and start
enjoying life again.
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REVIEWS
"Drs Galer and Argoff bring a
wealth of
experience to the great benefit of people in pain or those who care
about them."
Scott Fishman, M.D., author of The War on Pain, President of the
American Pain Foundation, and Professor and Chief of Pain Medicine,
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
"Drs Galer and Argoff
each have contributed significantly to the advancement of the field of
pain management. They are both well know as clinicians and teachers.
Their vast experience and insight is capsulated into this easy to read
book that can serve as a reference source. With the authors insight,
patients and their families will benefit a great deal from reading this
book."
Edgar Ross,
M.D., Director Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Best book of its type that I have
come across in over 40 years of pain management."
John D. Loeser, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery, University of
Washington
"Defeat Chronic Pain Now! is a
wonderful work by two of the field's eminent researcher-clinicians...I
urge patients and clinicians alike to obtain and then make full use of
this valuable text"
Mark P.
Jensen, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
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