Physical Pain

If you suffer from back pain, you know how it affects every aspect of your life. With Release Back Pain, you get relief through simple flexibility exercises and self-acupressure that alleviate pain by gently stretching your back muscles and supporting your spine. Join Michael Reed Gach, best-selling author and director of the Acupressure Institute, to learn a series of back care techniques that give relief to your aching back, and can be practiced anywhere, anytime.

In Perfectly Abnormal, Chris Morris tears down the erroneous and misinformed beliefs surrounding chronic illness. From the unique standpoint of being both a parent of a special needs daughter and having a seizure disorder himself, Chris guides listeners through difficult terrain as he shreds the eight most common myths the chronic illness community faces. Then he begins the conversation of developing a better theology of illness.

Join author Shannon Weber as she takes listeners on her journey through infertility and her path to recovery. In this poignant narrative, Shannon explores the profound impact of the mind on our emotions and well-being. As she navigates the heartache and healing associated with infertility, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, gaining insight into how her thoughts contribute to her pain.

Headache in women is truly a major health issue. Every year, over 22 million women in the United States suffer from migraine headache, often debilitating attacks that can leave the sufferer bedridden and that, in many cases, can undermine both one's career and even one's marriage. The Woman's Guide to Managing Migraine is a concise and practical handbook that gives female headache sufferers all the tools they need to work with their healthcare providers to properly diagnose types of headache and develop the best possible treatment plans.

The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of 10 short books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century. The focus is on what how the body down to the sub-cellular level reacts to its environment and how the mind can be intentionally used to affect the health through self-talk, imagery, meditation, and hypnotherapy.

Sunbreak: Healing the pain no one can explain helps you navigate these conditions to reclaim your life and health. Health coaching through the book program is available with Dr. Shana at askdrshana.com. Sunbreak explains a process for alleviating chronic pain, presented through the stories of patients, friends, and colleagues, who have regained their health after years of struggle.

During and after several long hospital stays for what should have been a simple knee replacement but turned into something much more exhausting, writer Robert Ungar reflects on his deep intrigue with the way hospitals are managed. In Hospital Impressions, Ungar delves into the roles of nurses and doctors, the day-to-day madness visited upon the patients, and his own personal history with the medical world.

What did you just hear? Is there a therapy that will solve all your skin and skin health-related problems? Oh yes! The red light is a remedial procedure completed through low-level red light wavelengths to fight against all skin problems. It is a scientifically proven method and suggested by scientists, as it works internally in the human body that gives strength to the skin and enables skin cells to energize and sharpens your face features by reducing face fat. It allows us to retain the process for a longer time.

Food should be a source of healing, not pain. Bloat is everywhere. It steals your good health, the joy of eating, playing, and living. Bloating is an equal opportunity drag. It can affect anyone and everyone, regardless of race, social, or economic background and status. In Bloated?, Dr. Edison de Mello reveals the real reasons why you are bloated, gassy, fatigued, moody, unsexy, or just plain tired. He then takes you on a healing journey and offers practical and manageable solutions, so you go from bloated to feeling your absolute best all the time.

Managing chronic illness is no laughing matter. It often hurts more than just physically, and that fact can have far-reaching consequences. Feelings of frustration with ongoing pain and fatigue can be difficult for those who are "not in your boat" to understand. Through fifty years of trial and error, I have discovered a combination of 7 simple habits that truly help me, and those closest to me, cope and find some balance as I manage daily, with illnesses such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and more recently, fibromyalgia.

If you are suffering from bone or joint issues and have been interested in alternative methods like prolotherapy, this book will provide you with all you need to know. This book goes into the history of prolotherapy, the science behind it, and the pros and cons of undergoing this incredible treatment as well as a comparison to other alternatives.

Ultimately, Hadler's insights illustrate how the state of the science can and should inform the art and practice of medicine as well as public policy. Stabbed in the Back will arm any reader with the insights necessary to make informed decisions when confronting the next episode of low back pain.

Chronic pain sucks. It can hijack your life and leave you feeling scared, depressed, and lonely. Pain that rarely goes away impacts your relationships, your work, and your mental health. Yet doctors frequently neglect to mention these critical aspects of pain, leaving you to navigate them alone.

Conquer Foot Pain offers relief for those struggling with pain in their feet through Julie Renae Smith’s Vital Me practice. For more than 22 years, alignment-based physiotherapist Julie Renae Smith, MPT, has helped countless people relieve their foot pain using her Vital Me practice.

This book is the second in the Workouts for Seniors series; it is filled with exercises with clear and concise directions and illustrations and provides routines for all muscle groups as well as cardiovascular exercises. There are also chapters dedicated to stretching and the easing of joint stiffness and pain. Exercises included are suitable for all ability levels and can be done from the comfort of your own home.

Research over the last few decades shows that many of us – sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike – are victims of a trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting after the body has healed. Paul Biegler, a science journalist and former doctor who has been on his own pain journey, investigates the true source of chronic pain – our brain’s so-called neuroplasticity – and emerging therapies that take advantage of that neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and end the suffering.

Want to know how to heal your body and inner self? Heal Your Body is a simple and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide which uses a fresh approach to help you bring yourself back up to par by using the techniques and methods that you will find inside! Within this audiobook, you will find the information you need to overcome being beaten down day by day and to be able to climb out of that hole you have been in for so long.

These stories will stay with you! Evocative short stories about five individuals and their very different experiences of physical and psychological pain: the immense silence and emptiness in the wake of losing a loved one; the pain of divorce, when everything seems to fall apart; pain as a result of illness, when one’s body becomes one’s worst enemy; and the agony experienced by Anna, a war reporter. In each case, a phase of healing follows – but in Anna’s story it is the land around her that heals.

Since Dr. Stephen Porges has developed Polyvagal theory to explain how our autonomic nervous system controls our physical reactions as well as our emotional reactions, a lot of research and study has gone into this hypothesis to see how the working of our nervous system relates to our physical and mental health. The findings were mind-blowing, as the vagus nerve was actually found to hold the key to good physical and mental health to a degree that was never thought possible.

Allison Alexander, who has struggled with a chronic illness since she was a child, wants to see herself in her heroes and searches for examples of sick characters in pop culture. She weaves her own painful experiences with stories from other chronic sufferers, engaging with how society values healthiness, how doctors don’t always have answers, and how faith, friendship, and romance add pressure to already complicated situations.