Physical Pain

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous 12-step fellowship, Stories of Hope presents the tools and principles of the 12 steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope.

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.

This book is written for you if you are a woman with fibromyalgia, ages fifty and better, who still has a lot of living to do. In Living Your BEST Life with Fibromyalgia, Dr. Robin Pfaff is your guide on the side, helping you to create your unique holistic game plan so you can love your life again. Throughout the book, you will learn skills and strategies to revitalize not only your physical well-being but also your emotional and mental wellness, your social well-being, and your experience of self-transcendence or spirituality.

Our hips are critical to our ability to move effectively, so it makes sense to do what we can to keep them functioning well. I wrote this audiobook to give you options you may not even be aware of to keep your hips healthy and heal injuries before they become chronic.

Did you know that adopting dietary adjustments, such as cutting out processed products, can help reduce inflammation, which is thought to be a major cause of chronic pain? The anti-inflammatory diet is a great diet that actually can help you live a better, healthier life. If you haven’t already tried it, it’s worth looking into. This indispensable anti-inflammation cookbook makes it simple to begin and maintain an anti-inflammatory lifestyle that can be tailored to various inflammatory diseases.

Have you ever suffered from the misery of sciatica or sacroiliac joint pain? If so, you know how debilitating you feel, and you’d love to know a way that you can relieve the hurt. This book will give you easy-to-understand and follow sciatica exercises to provide you with pain relief. If you have low back pain and sciatica, help is on the way to a more vibrant and engaging quality of life. Find relief from sciatica and SI joint pain with these 29 proven exercises from an orthopedic massage therapist specializing in treating chronic pain. You’ll be glad you did!

Chronic pain is a prison of fatigue, depression, and physical limitation that holds your fun-loving, laughing partner hostage in their own body. Recovery from chronic pain is possible through the practice of honesty, belief of self-efficacy, and the neurobiological formation of hope.

Do you want to get rid of your sciatica pain in just a few minutes each day at home with no special equipment? Is your lifestyle curtailed because you have aches and pains shooting down your leg and constant lower back pain that makes you feel weary and tired? Studies have shown people who keep flexible and active and maintain core stability have less recurrence of sciatica and lower back pain. This program is so easy to follow, you will see an improvement even if you are not used to regular exercise and have very little spare time.

Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas.

Discover the powerful healing potential of DMSO with this step-by-step guide to creating safe, effective, and customized DIY DMSO blends for pain relief, detoxification, skin care, and holistic wellness. Whether you're new to Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) or looking for innovative ways to maximize its benefits, this audiobook provides everything you need to safely and effectively incorporate DMSO into your daily routine.

By using this book's provided guided breathing exercises, you will be on the road to recovery and a healthier lifestyle. The right approach to breathing will strengthen your parasympathetic system, and increase the ability of your body to manage high levels of stress and regulate your emotions better. In our modern-day world of stress and vulnerability, we are all susceptible to illnesses than can be expelled with deep breathing exercises and kindness to our system before turning to medication.

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers is a life-affirming, instructive, and inspiring book about living gracefully and purposefully with the challengesfaced by those with chronic pain or illness. These conditions, while not always life-threatening, are life-disrupting and stressful. The audiobook contains over two dozen tools and practices to help people live skillfully and to find equanimity and joy despite the profound changes in their lives.

If you're experiencing pain in your hips and knees from sitting for endless hours, standing for long periods, or lifting heavy objects, then the exercises in this book will provide you fast relief! Based on the author's personal experience, research, and professional expertise, these at-home exercises are easy to follow. Activity is essential to help reverse the debilitating effects of back, hip, and knee problems. This is the second book in the Reverse Your Pain series.

The Headache Godfather traces the life of Seymour Diamond, MD, who was born in 1925, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Slovakia, in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Diamond revolutionized the practice of headache as a medical specialty when he opened the United States' first private headache practice, the Diamond Headache Clinic, in 1974. It quickly became a headache haven for sufferers from around the world.

This "Migraine Relief" guided self-hypnosis program was designed to assist the listener in easing headache-related pain, deep relaxation, encouraging self-healing and releasing worries. With the exception of occasional use, the listener is advised to rule out possible underlying health concerns with their primary care provider if the migraines are occurring on a regular basis. The hypnosis induction features isochronic tones which are a form of brainwave entrainment to help achieve deeper relaxation.

In The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Patricia Frye takes a direct, no-nonsense approach to educating listeners about cannabis and its medicinal qualities. In this audiobook, using humorous and touching stories from the many situations she has encountered in her practice over the years, Dr. Frye provides valuable information about the undeniable medicinal qualities of cannabis. This audiobook helps to destigmatize this misunderstood drug and educate listeners on the history of cannabis and how it is used by the medical community today.

If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything, so I quit my college teaching job and went to learn healthcare myself. I want to share as much as I can with you so you can help yourself and your loved ones self-manage your conditions or at least be informed when discussing your problems with the healthcare community. For practical purposes, this book is focused on the most common neuromusculoskeletal chronic pain conditions: particularly conditions having a joint, tendon, ligament, or muscular component to them.

As a survivor of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) caused by a drunk driver, Bonnie Lester intimately understands the challenge of living with persistent pain. From countless doctor’s visits to the missed moments with loved ones to shelling out thousands for expensive pain treatments, Bonnie lived the battle for decades. With a combination of neuroplasticity techniques, lifestyle medicine, and her innovative AIM (Affirmation, Image, Management) program, Bonnie astonished doctors by getting off the opioids, retrained her brain to significantly reduce pain, and reclaimed her life.

Some estimates by medical research groups state that up to 20 million Americans suffer from some form of peripheral neuropathy (PN) and this number is much higher when worldwide statistics are considered. A major reason for the rise in incidence for these conditions of damage to the nerves in the body that results in pain and dysfunction in them is the increase in cases of diabetes and pre-diabetic syndromes.

This book is a complete compendium on health and healing. Lessons and examples from the Holy Bible: both the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures) and the New Testament. Types and methods of healing are covered, as well as HOW TO information. This book also covers "hindrances" to healing and HOW TO overcome them. You can be healed, walk in health, and help others do the same. This book can help you OVERCOME the impossible challenges of terminal sickness and disease: MIRACLES are possible today … FOR YOU.