This unique and timely book offers startling new research proving that women experience pain differently from men, and respond to medications in vastly different ways. Now a renowned pain doctor and medical acupuncturist shows women how to treat their own chronic pain successfully, using complementary and holistic medicine, as well as traditional therapies. He offers specific complementary medicines for each type of pain, as well as healing regimens from the traditional medicine and kitchen cabinets. This supportive and much-needed book offers sympathy, hope, and relief to the many women who desperately want to ease their unending pain. 1 out of 5 women experience some sort of pain every day.
Women often experience entirely different symptoms for the same ailments than men do.
Male surgeons perform many more operations on women s reproductive organs than they do on those of men. Mark Allen Young, M.D. , F.A.C.P. , is a board-certified specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a licensed acupuncturist. A member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he has published articles in the New England Journal of Medicine , the New York Times , JAMA , and elsewhere. He lives in Baltimore. Karen Baar is a well-regarded journalist specializing in health.