Physical Pain

Allison Alexander, who has struggled with a chronic illness since she was a child, wants to see herself in her heroes and searches for examples of sick characters in pop culture. She weaves her own painful experiences with stories from other chronic sufferers, engaging with how society values healthiness, how doctors don’t always have answers, and how faith, friendship, and romance add pressure to already complicated situations.

Lymphedema can be unpredictable and confusing. You have many questions about this seemingly contradictory condition where you carry fluid on the body in a space which should not house it at all. In this book, you will learn all about what this condition is, how it can affect you, and most importantly, how to manage your symptoms and live with it, including what to do when your symptoms get worse. This book is written for everyone who wants to know everything about lymphedema and how they can live with this condition. You don't have to fight this battle all by yourself. Help is here.

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.

My first migraine hit me in high school, and I was unsure what to do. I have a pretty high pain tolerance from being picked on, beat up, and the everyday of having older siblings. I can put up with bumps, bruises, and scrapes, but one day when I got home from school a migraine hit me like a spike in my brain. I had bright lights in my field of view which I found out about later was called an “aura” then I started to see stars. Then the PAIN HIT!

Would you love to resolve your back pain problems once and for all? There is hope for pain-free living! Whether you want to (1) find real and permanent relief for your back pain, (2) strengthen your back to avoid injuries, or (3) move comfortably and painlessly through your day, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.

Many people live with chronic pain. For some, it's an occasional inconvenience but, for others, it's a huge burden, with a very serious effect on their day to day lives. In Coping with Chronic Pain, Dr Ilan Lieberman explains the current scientific understanding of what chronic pain is, how many different types of chronic pain there are, what causes it and why certain people suffer with chronic pain but others don't.

Most of us don't usually give much thought to the subject of pain, unless we are in the grips of a blinding migraine or something as agonizing. But it would do us good to have a good grasp of this subject, so that we will know what to do when we or a family member needs relief from pain. We never know when the knowledge of how to deal with pain will come in handy. This knowledge will also help us to make smarter decisions when selecting the right pain medication to take.

One big secret to growing older with confidence, dignity, and style is hidden in two words: Chair Yoga. Yoga has a host of health benefits that improve the quality of life of older adults. There are forms of yoga that are very gentle on your body and easy to do, and you only need a chair to do it.

Anyone who has dealt with a chronic disease has known the sleepless nights, the endless pain, the seemingly pointless doctor visits, and the well-meaning, but sometimes hard-to-face, comments from well-wishers who just don't get it. In this book, you will find empathy from someone who faces that same struggle, some words of encouragement, and hopefully a place to let your hair down and just relax for a bit, knowing that you're understood and there is no pressure to "get well soon".

In the digital age, technology has become a constant in our daily lives, but this convenience comes at what cost? Our modern work culture’s obsession with efficiency and multitasking is reducing the awareness of our bodies. We are forgetting the long-term implications of sitting hunched over our desks for extended periods. The posture we practice at work becomes the new normal for our bodies.

Pain. It can be low, pounding, never-seems-to-go-away pain or stabbing, piercing, want-to-scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs pain. I've watched chronic pain slowly eat away at a life. Sixty years ago my mother was one of the first to have a new surgical procedure to relieve her pain. It didn't work. Years later her pain finally ended her life shortly after her 40th birthday.

Tailbone pain is life-changing. It affects the way you sit, work, drive, or travel. It can consume your everyday thought process, leading to loss of concentration, irritability, and depression. However, this is treatable. Your tailbone pain can be treated, and you will sit comfortably again.

I suffered from severe and frequent migraines that disrupted my life and made me miserable. Throughout years of herbal and nutritional training, wildcrafting and making herbal recipes, all the while dealing with migraine headaches, I learned effective ways to not only treat migraines, but to prevent them as well. I wrote this book to share with migraine sufferers who may be looking for relief with gentle, holistic treatments that work to eliminate the problem, not just the symptoms.

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.

Estás a punto de descubrir un cambio dietario que puede aliviar tus síntomas y mejorar tu sistema inmune por el resto de tu vida! esta no es una dieta pasajera de moda. Millones de americanos sufren de enfermedades autoinmunes y han logrado dejar de tomar medicaciones agresivas, quimioterapia y medicaciones para el dolor simplemente cambiando su dieta.

One of the many strange effects of the 2020 pandemic has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general and about minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time; maybe even every day. This book is not about what happens when we're ill with something sufficiently serious to send us to the doctor or confine us to bed. Instead, it focuses on the multitude of mild, irksome, distracting illnesses, aches and pains with which we all put up with constantly.

Discover the unmistakable connection between migraines and stress points on the skull created by the dentition. There has to be a reason why your headache occurs in the same place time after time. Our techniques developed over 20 years can predict this location nine out of 10 times, even if you don't have a headache at the time of the examination.

The vagus nerve plays a vital role in your body. It controls everything from regulating your heart rate to managing your gut health and digestion… and profoundly affects your health. With a wealth of practical techniques and exercises you can apply right away, this guide will show you everything you need to know to bring your body back into balance and restore optimum health!

Whether it results from injury, osteoporosis, or an unusually intense weekend golf game, back pain is an all-too-common cause of serious discomfort that can debilitate even your most dedicated effort to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Harris H. McIlwain has devoted his career to bringing relief to sufferers of back pain and arthritis, and in The Pain-Free Back, he shares his clinically proven six-step program for achieving and maintaining a healthy back.

This audiobook is designed to take you through a journey of healing for managing your chronic pain and elevating your life. It starts with some information about chronic pain and an overview of different conditions that cause chronic pain. This is followed by describing the impact of chronic pain on life, and how to manage it through elevating your life force with healthy living skills and mental well-being practices.