The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief

De: Barbara K. Bruce, The Great Courses

Narrado por: Barbara K. Bruce

If your life or the life of someone you love has been hijacked by pain, you're not alone. One out of every three US adults lives with chronic pain - pain that can rob you of your vitality, confidence, friendships, intimacy, and even your will to live. But it doesn't have to be that way. That's why the experts at Mayo Clinic have teamed with The Great Courses to craft this research-based guide to pain relief and recovery.

In The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief, Barbara K. Bruce, PhD., L.P., provides a tried-and-true framework for coping with chronic pain. Dr. Bruce's scientific explanations and biology-based suggestions can help you create a vibrant and fulfilling future for yourself, in spite of chronic pain.

Based on a scientific understanding of the causes of pain and behaviors that make pain better or worse, Dr. Bruce explains why opioids do not work for chronic non-cancer pain; how to empower yourself by developing appropriate "SMART" goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-limited; and how social support affects your physical health. You'll learn about the extraordinary complexities in your brain's interpretation and management of pain and the multifaceted relationships between pain and stress.

This course provides a practical guide for building an appropriate health care team and creating an individualized pain-management program with your physician that addresses the issues of physical stamina, stress management, social support, sleep, and mood. Dr. Bruce doesn't want you to wait for a cure or pain relief before you move back into your life. "I want you to begin living your life today", she says. And with this course, you'll be on your way.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Well presented

Loads of great information contained in these courses. The exercise and guided meditation suggestions I found to be helpful.

good for everyone with or without pain

a very concise history of types of pain along with treatments for not necessarily specific for sufferers of pain but for anyone and everyone that has someone in their life experiencing chronic pain chapters of concise specific and non-repetitive

Helpful

Very good explanations of pain and how it functions (or, in my case, malfunctions). This helped me put the explanations I got from my doctor into context and understand how my symptoms fit together. I'll be rereading this regularly to help with motivation for my lifestyle changes.

Absolutely incredible

The narrator is a doctor working on pain medicine at Mayo Clinic and she comes across as so very genuinely compassionate and speaking directly to you. I really, really loved the deep dive into central sensitization. If all the neurology talk puts you off, you can skip that chapter. It can be a bit overwhelming. But I would just pause, look up whatever they were talking about, and go back to it.

This is information condensed into a format that I can generally understand (there's just that one chapter that's tricky) and have not found anywhere else. Not in any other book, website, video, none of it. Not at a level I can understand, in a place I can find, covering the broad swath she did, and backed by all the evidence she provided.

If you have chronic pain, read it. If you have to get an Audible membership just to be able to read this with your first free book, do it. This is gold

Very Informative

I received more answers about how to handle chronic pain than in two decades of searching among multiple doctors.