Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain - Michael K. Nicholas, Allan Molloy, Lee Beeston, Lois Tonkin

Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain - Michael K. Nicholas, Allan Molloy, Lee Beeston, Lois Tonkin (2012)

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. What is Chronic Pain?

Chapter 2. Questions You May Have

Chapter 3. What’s Going On In Your Body When Pain Is Chronic?

Chapter 4. What X-rays, CT and MRI Scans Tell Us

Chapter 5. Working with Your Doctor

Chapter 6. Treatments for Chronic Pain

Chapter 7. Using Pacing To Overcome The Effects Of Chronic Pain on Activities

Chapter 8. Setting Goals

Chapter 9. Recognising And Overcoming Obstacles To Change

Chapter 10. Stretching and Exercising

Chapter 11. Challenging Ways of Thinking About Pain

Chapter 12. Using Relaxation

Chapter 13. Attentional Techniques - Distraction and Desensitising

Chapter 14. Improving Sleep

Chapter 15. Stress and Problem Solving

Chapter 16. Interacting with Those Around You/a>

Chapter 17. Dealing With Flare-Ups and Set-Backs

Chapter 18. Pain and Work

Chapter 19. Pain Self-Management for Seniors

Chapter 20. Keeping It Up

Glossary

Appendix 1

Appendix 2