The Pain Companion

2018-05-07 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Sarah Anne Shockley
Release : 2018-05-07
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Pain Companion by : Sarah Anne Shockley

Download or read book The Pain Companion written by Sarah Anne Shockley. This book was released on 2018-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical, Gentle, and Empathetic Approach to Pain Where do you turn when medication and medical treatments do not relieve persistent, debilitating pain? What can you do when pain interferes with work, family, and social life and you no longer feel like the person you used to be? Relying on firsthand experience with severe nerve pain, author Sarah Anne Shockley accompanies you on your journey through pain and offers compassionate, practical advice to ease difficult emotions and address lifestyle challenges. Her approach helps reduce the toll that living in pain takes on relationships, self-image, and well-being while cultivating greater ease and resilience on a daily basis. Dozens of accessible, uplifting practices guide you every step of the way from a life overcome by pain to a life of greater comfort and peace. The Pain Companion also offers profound insights for medical practitioners and invaluable guidance for anyone who loves or cares for others in pain.

Handbook of Pain Management

2003 Medical

Author : Ronald Melzack
Release : 2003
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book Handbook of Pain Management written by Ronald Melzack. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of the most important information about every clinical aspect of pain. It is for health care professionals, in practice and in training, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a wide variety of acute and chronic pain problems. The handbook is divided into three sections: clinical pain states, therapeutic approaches, and special problems of assessment and management. The emphasis throughout is on the diagnosis and treatment of clinical pain states and includes recent advances in all aspects of therapy. A special section is devoted to assessing and managing the most challenging problems: pain in children, burn pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain, gender-related pain, AIDS-related pain and pain in the elderly.

The Five Invitations

2017-03-14 Family & Relationships

Author : Frank Ostaseski
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book The Five Invitations written by Frank Ostaseski. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation. The Five Invitations: -Don’t Wait -Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing -Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience -Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things -Cultivate Don’t Know Mind These Five Invitations show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis; they guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. Awareness of death can be a valuable companion on the road to living well, forging a rich and meaningful life, and letting go of regret. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us.

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

2015-05-19 Literary Criticism

Author : David Hillman
Release : 2015-05-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature written by David Hillman. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.

Pain Diary

2020-01-15

Author : Emily Newmann
Release : 2020-01-15
Genre :
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Book Rating : 890/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Pain Diary written by Emily Newmann. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often it makes sense to document the pain in order to find out together with the doctor which therapy is the right one against the pain. The aim of this pain diary is to document the pain. Often you do not remember your pain at the next visit, so

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