Managing Pain Before It Manages You, Fourth Edition

Join the hundreds of thousands of readers who have found help and hope for getting their lives back from chronic pain in this empowering workbook. Top pain specialist and physician Margaret A. Caudill spells out 10 steps that can radically change the way you feel--both physically and emotionally. Dr. Caudill provides state-of-the-art information about the causes and treatment of pain and guides you to: *Identify what increases and decreases your symptoms.*Reduce your pain and emotional distress.*Make informed decisions about medications and nutritional therapies.*Benefit from relaxation (including audio downloads), meditation, and gentle exercise.*Communicate effectively about your pain.*Learn essential skills for coping and problem solving.*Set and meet doable personal goals (you can download and print additional copies of the worksheets as needed). The fully updated fourth edition incorporates important advances in pain management and mind–body medicine. It features new content on mindfulness, a "Quick Skill" section in each chapter with simple exercises that can have an immediate impact, updated supplementary reading and resources (including smartphone apps), and more. 

• The Pain Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Life (APA Lifetools)
• Managing Chronic Pain: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
• You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Restore Well-Being---An Eight-Week Program
• Living Beyond Your Pain: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain
• Bouncing Back: Skills for Adaptation to Injury, Aging, Illness, and Pain
• Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain, Second Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
• The Opioid-Free Pain Relief Kit: 10 Simple Steps to Ease Your Pain
• Back in Control: A Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain, 2nd Edition
• Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain Now!: A Powerful User-friendly Program for Anyone Searching for Immediate Pain Relief (Book & CD)