" Defeat Chronic Pain Now! - by Bradley Galer, M.D. & Charles Argoff, M.D.
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THE NEWEST AND MOST CUTTING-EDGE TREATMENTS FOR BEATING CHRONIC PAIN
 

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


 

 

  • Back Pain
  • Neck Pain
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Migraines
  • Tension-Type Headaches
  • Rebound Headache Syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Cancer Pain
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  • Painful Polyneuropathy
  • Shingles
  • Postherpetic Neuralgia

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:

  • Myofascial Dysfunction: The real (undiagnosed!) culprit in 90% of Back and Neck Pain
  • DMARDS and NSAIDS: Two breakthrough drugs that promise significant relief for Arthritis
  • Nutraceuticals: The natural wonder treatment for Peripheral Neuropathy
  • 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.

 

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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ISBN-13:978-1-59233-407-0 |  ISBN-10:  1-59233-407-5