[.ca] Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients (ISBN 1577363027)

When your doctors have given up, buy this book.:
If you are searching for answers to chronic pain, you must read this book. When Dr. Cochran described his chronic pain patients, I felt as if he were following me through the day, noting my behavior, measuring my symptoms and writing a book just about me. A habit such as compulsive record keeping, which I always considered a personal peccadillo, is actually a common characteristic of chronic pain patients. The first few chapters described my condition so well, I knew this book was a departure from the endless circle of new doctors, repetitive tests, multiple diagnoses and no solutions. Dr. Cochran recommends combinations of established, safe and inexpensive drugs. It is incredibly refreshing to find someone who believes your pain is real and has a plan to relieve or eliminate your suffering without surgery or complicated procedures. Two months after I started Dr. Cochran's basic treatment plan I was completely pain free for the first time in over ten years.

There Is Hope:
It's wonderful to finally find a book that clearly offers both hope and understandable solutions. It is very readable. As someone who has a family member who suffers from chronic pain, I found Dr. Cochran's book to be both enlightening and thought-provoking. I continue to refer to it often and our family benefits from his insights. We have shared those insights with other medical professionals. We are already seeing changes and relief. This is a different kind of "pain" book. Dr. Cochran truly understands the many layers and facets of chronic pain. He handles taboo subjects with grace and again, hope. If you want to find meaning in the chaos of your chronic pain, this book will help you (and friends and family) break through the cloud of uncertainty and long-suffering.

Portraits of Pain / Creative Neuro- Psycho-Pharmacology:
Dear Sufferers, Dear Unsuccessful Doctors of Sufferers, Dear Family, Friend, or Acquaintence of Sufferer, Dear Abuser or would be abuser, Dear Employer, Insurance Company, Lawyer, or Otherwise Interested Party, In his new book Dr Cochran offers case by case several of the thousands of cases he has treated over 40 years in private practice and at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Addressed as "A Doctor Talks To His Patients", the book is outstanding in its readability, and the chronic pain sufferer who reads this book will benefit not only in broadening his understanding of the many faces and causes of pain, but of groundbreaking, exciting, and highly effective treatments of such. Combining neurology,psychology, and creative modern pharmacology with vast experience and unwavering, empathetical dedication to his patients, Dr.Cochran herein seems to derive a new etiology-a set of symptoms, physical-neurological-and psycholocical-which NEWLY DEFINE CHRONIC PAIN in what he terms a MIND-SOUL DISEASE, allowing it to be CLINICALLY DIAGNOSABLE, thus removing quite many associated mysteries. The anecdotal histories then describe creative, sensible and very successful, LASTING RELIEF for everything from MIGRAINE to PELVIC PAIN and let's not forget THE BACK!! His love for his patients, his dedication to them and his specialty, his profound curiosity of the "nature of the beast", and his fearlessness in choosing new and effective combinations of weapons in attack are thoughtfully placed throughout. I believe this book will be viewed as more than a milestone in the field of medicine in may ways, perhaps most importantly in establishing and clinically confirming that THE PAIN IS REAL and THERE'S A REASON FOR IT !! Dr. Cochran suggests this gains the sufferer not only a level of dignity unallowed in un-diagnosable and therefore "Questionable" pain, but he apparently then is psychologically boosted into a more promising prognosis--HOW SENSIBLE !!If you can see the enemy-you can take a promising shot at it! Dr. Cochran knows the enemy, and through this book, effectively draws the community of chronic pain sufferers together in conquering it. Relations of chronic pain to past traumas, physical and/or psychological are made. Sometimes quite disturbing truths as sexual or physical abuse, though perhaps not surprising, are exposed in a careful and thought provoking manner. What an insightful and valueable pile of pages !!

Excellent Book on the Subject.:
Very good book. Dr Cochran goes places that no one else goes. He talks about the psychological, psychosocial and psychiatric effects of chronic pain. He the first one to cover Conversion Disorder and Functional illness in a book of this type. This book is about treatment with medication, many different types of medication. After 30 yrs of treating chronic pain he very astute at treating it. I think that those who suffer should read with an open mind to the fact that what started out as in an injury may have transformed in to something different. He discusses the disease of the body and the mind. This isn't a feel better without medication and diet book. Thank Heavens.

Chronic Pain Is Real:
In Dr. Cochran's book, he explains about different situations that causes chronic pain. He writes it in a way that a person will understand that there is REAL PAIN. I highly recommend this book to anyone that suffers from chronic pain or anyone that knows someone that does. For the person that has chronic pain, this book will help you better understand about your pain. After having two serious back surgeries, I am left with chronic pain on a daily basis. This book will let you know that there is a doctor that finally understands what we go through. It will also give you hope to know that you do not have to suffer so much because there are treatments to help with the pain. I have sometimes felt alone, but this book and Dr. Cochran has shown me that I am not alone and that he really does understands and cares. Also, that I do not have to feel guilty about taking medication for the treatment of my chronic pain. For someone that knows a person that has chronic pain, it is a informative tool for them to understand how that person is suffering. It will also let you know that the person in chronic pain maybe dealing with alot of issues that are brought out in this book.