Manage your pain - Michael Nicholas

The causes of chronic pain vary, ranging from physical injury to arthritis or cancer to neurological problem to environmental and psychological factors. But, whatever the cause, this pain can disrupt schedules and make it impossible to enjoy daily life. Manage Your Pain offers suffers a pathway towards recovery.Drawing on the latest research, Manage Your Pain explains the positive and practical ways you can adapt to chronic pain in order to minimise its impacts on your life. It provides easy methods to identify patterns and triggers as well as practical steps to help sufferers return to normal life.This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on pain management for older people, and clear explanations of the causes of pain and the steps that anyone can take to minimise its impacts on their life and the lives of their loved ones.

Michael has been working in the pain field since 1980 as a clinical psychologist, educator, and researcher. Between 1988 and 1990 Michaelwas the inaugural director of the inpatient pain management programme (INPUT) at St Thomas' Hospital in London. This programme was established with the support of the Kings Fund to evaluate the effectiveness of this form of pain management in the UK. The INPUT programme continues to achieve outstanding results and over the years it has received widespread international recognition. Since returning to Australia Michael joined the Pain Management and Research Centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney (with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney), where he is now an Associate Professor. In 1994 Michael established the ADAPT programme at the Royal North Shore Hospital. This is based directly on the original INPUT programme in London and is achieving similar results. More recently, he has been involved in assisting the development ofsimilar programmes in Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore, as well as Australia. Michael has published over 120 papers in books and scientific journals, on the management of pain, and he has lectured on the field in many countries.

The book would be a useful starting point for anyone wishing to explore some alternative strategies to pain management.
The Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing

Essential reading for anyone who suffers chronic pain.
Woman

This book does what it says on the cover - it helps you to manage pain... The book has a lot of ideas.
Arthritis News