Supporting People with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
Based on an 8-week Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy programme, this guide addresses the increasing need for adapted mindfulness in the management of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Long Covid, and other chronic fatigue conditions. Using current understanding and theoretical approaches to Long Covid and ME/ CFS, this book allows practitioners to ......
This holistic guide provides an integrative toolbox on how healthcare and fitness professionals can promote lifestyle medicine with their clients. Its clinical and evidence-informed approach focuses on the six primary lifestyle medicine factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. ......
Freedom to Move is an evidence informed practical resource which provides movement therapists of all disciplines with an exercise blueprint for rehabilitating spinal pain and many related injuries. In essence, Freedom to Move describes what goes wrong in the spine and what to do about it. It integrates the applicable contemporary ......
Providing essential support to schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, this comprehensive, edited textbook develops robust curricula, enabling them to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.
Hip and Knee Pain Disorders has been written to provide a state-of-the-art, evidence-informed and clinically-informed overview of the examination and conservativemanagement of hip/knee pain conditions.
The authors of this bestselling book are highly-respected experts on pain management who have successfully treated thousands of patients. Their 10 lesson self management program offers clinically-proven strategies for making simple, gradual adjustments to daily patterns so you can take cope with chronic pain and take charge of your life.
This is an authoritative and comprehensive pain management resource written by a leading expert in women's pelvic pain. Ooi Thye Chong bridges the divide between Chinese medicine acupuncture and western medical acupuncture providing an innovative approach to a common and severe form of chronic pain, supplemented with first hand patient ......
This highly illustrated book explains the effects of scars and adhesions on the body through the lens of biotensegrity, a concept that recognizes the role of physical forces on their formation, structure and treatment. It includes contributions from specialists in the fields of fascial anatomy, biotensegrity, movement, surgery and other manual ......
This book offers an introduction to the eight extraordinary vessels for acupuncturists. It includes theory and history, as well as practical application to acupuncture practice demonstrated through case studies.
The book takes an integrated approach to pain rehabilitation and combines pain science, rehabilitation and yoga with evidence-based approaches from respected contributors. They demonstrate how to integrate the concepts, philosophies and practices of yoga and pain science in working with people in pain. An essential and often overlooked part ......
The Foundations of Whole-Person Care for Health Professionals
This multi-contributed book provides a detailed exploration of mind-body integrated, whole-person rehabilitation. Integrative Rehabilitation Practice goes beyond the treatment of symptoms to explore all levels, roots, and possible contributing factors to an ill health experience, and this book covers both the theoretical foundations of IRP and ......
How to Overcome Chronic Back Pain and Rebuild Your Life
"Back pain afflicts more than 3 in 4 adults and costs Americans over $100 billion every year. While most people recover quickly, the disabilities suffered by people who don't generate the vast majority of the costs and heartache. Talking Back offers people disabled by chronic back pain personal strategies for recovering active lives and ......
The Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) was introduced by the American physician Stephen Typaldos (1957-2006). In this model all injuries and other conditions causing pain or disability are seen as arising from specific distortions of the connective tissue. This highly illustrated and very practical text and manual covers in detail the ......
Presents an integrated healthcare team approach that helps patients manage opioid use in a structured, safe, and supportive environment while also exploring all of the factors that impact the patients' pain experience. This whole-person approach to care allows for cross-cutting strategies to be applied and maximizes the reduction of suffering.
This clinical textbook will update the reader on the relevant anatomy, known biomechanics, clinical assessment, musculoskeletal conditions and treatment of the thorax and how these relate to the function of the whole body. An integrated biopsychosocial model (the Integrated Systems Model - ISM) will be highlighted in this text and used as a ......
Hundreds of thousands of readers have found help and hope for getting their lives back from chronic pain in this empowering workbook. Top pain specialist and physician Margaret A. Caudill spells out 10 steps that can radically change the way pain sufferers feel--both physically and emotionally. From finding the best treatments to coping with ......
How to Overcome Chronic Back Pain and Rebuild Your Life
Talking Back teaches people who are disabled by chronic back pain how to put their lives back together again. The book is packed with lessons learned from thousands of real experts: people who did it themselves!
A Five-Step Plan for Treating Chronic Pain, Depression, Anxiety, Fatigue
Millions of people experience issues related to brain health yet can't figure out what's causing their problems and can't find any relief. David Younger, a world-renowned physician, provides diagnostic techniques and treatment protocols will help readers identify the true cause of their symptoms and put them on a clear path to healing.
Pain Science Yoga Life combines the neuroscience of pain with yoga philosophy and practice for pain care. Rooted in evidence-based practice, this book is a unique blend of the science of pain, the art and science of yoga and its practical application. It aims to bridge the gap that exists between a person in pain and their ability to move beyond ......
Understanding the Experience of Pain and Suffering and the Role of Heali
A reconsideration of our treatment and understanding of pain and suffering in all its forms, and approaches to its relief and management. Keynote speakers from the British Pain Society explore innovative approaches to pain management, recentring the importance of healing within the biomedicine-dominated field of pain medicine.
Musculoskeletal Pain - Assessment, Prediction and Treatment presents a common sense approach to interpreting and applying existing clinical knowledge and new research to help clinicians make sense of the complex phenomena of acute and chronic post-traumatic musculoskeletal pain. Built upon the Assess, Predict, Treat framework, the authors offer a ......
BarCharts' newest addition to its line of health guides includes the Pills & Medications QuickStudy guide, designed for quick reference for the most common conditions affecting adults and the drugs most often used to treat them. As always, this guide uses BarCharts' trusted, easy-to-access fold-out format that, when used in conjunction with your ......
An argument for the use of hypnotic analgesia as a viable alternative to psychopharmacological interventions for controlling acute, chronic, and perioperative pain, as well as pain from nonsurgical procedures. It provides a survey of the different types of pain and easy-to-follow induction examples for the major types of pain syndromes.
Real-World Solutions for Amputees to Accomplish the Impossible
This work offers a glimpse into the life of a new amputee and walks readers through the first minutes, hours, and days of living with limb loss. Jeffrey A. Mangus, a below the knee amputee, also offers insight and encouragement for the long haul - providing readers with all they need to know to get back to living a full life.
vers Can Help People Navigate Long-term Health Conditions
Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions. This book combines insights on chronic illness with spiritual care skills and suggestions to enhance well-being for people living with long-term illness.
Written for all healthcare providers who are considering including medical cannabis in their treatment plans, this is the first handbook to disseminate all the information needed to advise patients safely and legally.
The tracks on these CDs are based on Tina's childbirth classes, teaching women how to utilities their own inner resources their instincts whilst having their babies. Based on the work of Dr Grantly Dick Read an English doctor from the 1920's who noticed that woman who had easy births appeared to be in a trance like state, he said that this was ......