Daily Telegraph' Chronic Pain : The Complete Guide to Relief

Like its two predecessors on backache and arthritis, Chronic Pain: The Complete Guide to Relief is based on the distilled wisdom of more than 1,000 chronic pain sufferers who have overcome their disability. Their expertise is critically important because the body of knowledge about chronic pain is scant and contradictory; very often the medical profession treats chronic pain sufferers as people with 'nothing really wrong with them'.Chronic Pain: The Complete Guide to Relief is a self-help guide for those people who have done the rounds of GPs, hospitals and tests and don't know where to turn to next. It is the first practical guide that gives chronic pain sufferers the information and practical techniques they need to reverse years of misery.The book advocates a five-step programme to turn a life blighted by constant pain into one that's healthy and active: overcoming isolation and despair; sorting out the myths that harm from the truths that heal; the body-mind recovery plan; exercise and other self-healing strategies; a glossary of what works and what doesn't.