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Fibromyalgia for Dummies helps you understand the symptoms and causes of this challenging disease and guides you through steps you can take to reduce or eliminate your symptoms, decreasing your pain and fibro fog to manageable control. You'll learn about and benefit from clear, easy-to-understand coverage of the newest and best medications, over-the-counter drugs, topical remedies, hands-on therapies, and alternative treatments. Learn about the pros and cons of medical marijuana and cannabinoids.

Be free of chronic pain and live a better life. Stopping Pain introduces those who suffer from chronic pain to an overlooked but safe and effective alternative to expensive and addictive pain medications. Percutaneous hydrotomy, a revolutionary medical technique developed over 30 years ago in France and used safely in Europe since, is a regenerative treatment that employs physiologic saline, vitamins, minerals, and carefully selected medications to alleviate chronic pain and enhance overall bodily function.

Life with Diabetes: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing and ThrivingLiving with diabetes doesn’t mean living in limitation—it means learning how to thrive. Life with Diabetes is your all-in-one guide to understanding the condition, managing it effectively, and creating a healthier, more fulfilling life. This practical resource covers everything from blood sugar monitoring and insulin therapy to meal planning, exercise, and natural remedies. It also addresses the emotional side of diabetes, offering strategies for stress management, resilience, and maintaining a positive mindset.

Widely respected meditation expert Shinzen Young presents proven strategies for pain-free living, drawing on over 20 years of field research and a lifetime of experience. Dr. Young teaches us how to "retrain" our relationship with pain by using traditional meditation techniques. He adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to a practical process that treats even the most chronic and extreme pain, possibly reducing the need for drugs or surgery.

An award-winning sociologist unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms—crafting near-clinical grade dosing protocols--and fought for recognition in a broken medical system. Cluster headache, a...

Chronic pain sucks. It can hijack your life and leave you feeling scared, depressed, and lonely. Pain that rarely goes away impacts your relationships, your work, and your mental health. Yet doctors frequently neglect to mention these critical aspects of pain, leaving you to navigate them alone.

Living Well with Neuropathic Facial Pain–Including Trigeminal Neuralgia, was written by medical experts to empower you on your facial pain journey. This book provides a multi-disciplinary approach to living well with neuropathic facial pain by focusing on proven medical treatment, with an emphasis on the psychology of pain and accessible suggestions to help you live your best life.

Susan S. Scott is an experienced psychotherapist who, due to a back injury, was forced to abandon her therapist's couch and walk for therapy. Through her extended strolls through nature, she discovered the ingenious ability of trees to grow around obstacles and, in essence, heal themselves. The result of Dr. Scott's musings is Healing with Nature. This collection of stories and photos describes a different aspect of the healing process.

If you are listening to this, it’s likely that you are suffering from chronic, even debilitating pain. Or someone you love is suffering. In either case, you want to find a solution, a way to stop the pain so that life can return to normal. You want to play catch with your grandchild again. Or be able to lift your child into your arms and hug them close. Or play tennis. Or go for a bike ride with your family, go sailing, paint those canvases, play the piano, walk from your house to the car without pain.

Today we have the knowledge, understanding, and technology to predictably relieve pain and neurological deficits like never before—yet many patients are still getting subpar care. Foundational knowledge of surgical spine care isn't spreading to the medical community, let alone to patients, whose quality of life hangs in the balance. With The Back Story on Spine Care, orthopedic specialist Dr. Drew Bednar presents case studies that illuminate the common issues plaguing patients—and their treatment—today.

If you suffer from chronic headache or migraine, you know that headaches can rule your daily life as you try to avoid triggers, cope with pain, manage unexpected attacks and spend hours trying different cures and searching for an answer. You've had all the scans, taken all the tests, but still don't have a definitive answer as to why you are constantly dealing with frequent, severe headache pain. Without an answer, the medical profession often ends up treating the symptoms with the long-term use of medication, which can end up making your headaches worse.

In Living beyond Pain, a physician and a therapist offer a whole person approach to pain management, addressing the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of pain and providing alternative strategies that don't rely on opioids. Through education, pain triumph stories, daily guided cognitive activity, and as-needed pain rescue techniques, listeners will reprogram their neurologic pathways, increase functioning, and experience improvement in their symptoms.

Wouldn't it be nice to stop worrying about how your endometriosis symptoms are going to hold you back from hitting your career goals? Sought-after endometriosis, pelvic pain, and nutrition expert Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, has helped thousands of women relieve their pelvic pain in over 20 years of practice. In Outsmart Endometriosis, she offers not another “one-size-fits-none endo diet", but a comprehensive approach to managing your symptoms using simple, repeatable strategies, and without having to wait for an appointment with your doctor.

The Pain Companion is a practical guidebook for people living with chronic pain written by someone who has endured debilitating pain for many years and found ways to thrive and enjoy life despite the challenges. The book is intended to be, quite literally, a companion through pain, validating and acknowledging its myriad challenges and offering a pathway to greater well-being, ease, and comfort.

In 2011, Jessica Buchanan found herself in the middle of a nightmare she could never have prepared for; she was a hostage in the desert, captured by Somali pirates, who held a 45 million dollar ransom demand on her head. Taken at gunpoint while on a routine field mission for her non-governmental organization, Jessica was forced to live in deplorable conditions, regularly tortured, and kept on a starvation diet for 93 days. On January 25, 2012, Jessica was successfully rescued by SEAL Team VI, upon order of President Obama, and finally brought home.

Create natural back pain relief and bring soothing energy to your body with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist Joel Thielke. It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep! The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle. The guided meditation and soothing background music will deeply relax your body and mind for the perfect night's sleep, while allowing you to access the deepest parts of your mind.

In this deeply illuminating memoir and guide, James Garrett, a successful engineer in the high-tech industry, invites listeners on a transformative journey that goes beyond physical healing of chronic pain. Drawing from mind-body medicine, spiritual insight, and deep faith, this book offers practical tools for dissolving harmful thought patterns, cultivating awareness, and restoring inner peace. At its heart, this book is a guide for using awareness as medicine—learning when and how to surrender and respond to life with presence rather than resistance.

Based on 11 years experience, battling severe Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), Dr. Morgan, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, Ironman triathlete, and student of body movement, has created this 14-week training plan designed to help maintain function, in the face of progressive vascular occlusion.

This year alone, more than five million people will see a doctor for their knee pain. And many more will simply deal with it (or not deal with it). If you've been to a doctor about your knees and were disappointed with the lack of improvement... If you're considering knee surgery, but have doubts and fears about the risks, money, and prolonged healing time... If you've endured knee surgery, but you're still waiting for the "promise" of better knees, I have some good news for you.

If you suffer from back pain, you know how it affects every aspect of your life. With Release Back Pain, you get relief through simple flexibility exercises and self-acupressure that alleviate pain by gently stretching your back muscles and supporting your spine. Join Michael Reed Gach, best-selling author and director of the Acupressure Institute, to learn a series of back care techniques that give relief to your aching back, and can be practiced anywhere, anytime.