Review: Excellent Book on Chronic Pain Management
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
In practical uses, this book is written primarily for caretakers, physicians and pharmarimists. However, as a layperson with chronic pain, I did find this book very helpful and easy to understand overall. This book has 4 very helpful chapters regarding the treatment of pain and types of chronic pain:1) Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain2) Comprehensive Assessment of Chronic Pain (Very helpful and easy to understand chapter).3) Selecting Mechanism-Based Pharmacotheraphy For Chronic Pain ( This listed the accepted and widely used medications for chronic pain with excellent information as well).4) Multimodal Treatment of Chronic Pain - (Very, very helpful chapter). This chapter covers how anxiety makes the pain worse and has info on pain severity and a chart on how to rate the pain. What I like is the Cognitive Behavior Theraphy in how to decrease the pain. This method works well for me and I also liked the Dr. Brennan gives helpful references at the end of each chapter.Even though I am a layperson, for my pain research for myself, I did find some practical things from reading this book.