Managing Pain Before it Manages You

By Margaret A. Caudill, MD, PhD

Imagine finding a way to reduce the amount of time you spend in doctors' offices, and to decrease the discomfort, depression, and anxiety associated with chronic pain. In Managing Pain before It Manages You, Margaret A. Caudill offers just that -- a program designed to help you develop skills for coping with pain so you can enjoy a fuller life. Carefully conceived from the author's many years of working with chronic pain sufferers, this approach has been proven effective. Program participants report that they have been able to take control of their pain and cut their doctor visits by more than one-third! Best of all, the program is straightforward and easy to follow.

With compassion, understanding, and humor, this hands-on guide provides detailed information with step-by-step techniques, activities, and homework assignments designed to help you:

• Understand the pain process.
• Recognize factors that increase or decrease pain.
• Reduce stress.
• Learn effective problem solving.
• Learn about medications and their effects.
• Develop relaxation and exercise techniques.
• Communicate effectively about your pain.
• Set realistic goals.

Softcover: 240 pages
8.5 x 11 inches

The revised edition of Managing Pain Before it Manages You features updated coverage of commonly used pain medications and specific pain disorders, current nutritional recommendations and a new appendix on complimentary alternative medicine. Also included are a wealth of new ideas on coping with pain flare-ups, staying active, accomplishing personal goals and more!

The Author:

Margaret A. Caudill, MD, PhD, is Co-Director of the Department of Pain Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Dartmouth Medical School. A board-certified internist and a Diplomate of Pain Medicine, Dr. Caudill has long been involved in developing patient programs that bring mind and body together in medical treatment. In addition to authoring Managing Pain Before it Manages You she has researched and written exclusively on mind/body medicine and lectured internationally on the importance of the biopsychosocial treatment of pain model.

What they're saying about Managing Pain Before it Manages You:

"The reader gets the sense that the author has great understanding of the experience of living with chronic pain... Managing Pain Before it Manages You includes an excellent appendix devoted to 'working comfortably,' which presents techniques for adjusting the environment to facilitate employment for the person who has chronic pain." -- Disability Studies Quarterly

"The single best book on pain available today. Managing Pain Before it Manages You will surely become a classic." -- Joan Borysenko, PhD, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

"This is a truly special book. It is packed with important and practical tips from one of the leading international authorities in the field." -- Francis J. Keefe, PhD, Duke University

"Dr. Caudill's book and program gave me back my life after I was involved in an automobile accident five years ago. The pain that became chronic was untreatable, and it felt as though my life was lost. Then my doctor referred me to Dr. Caudill's 10-week pain management program which provided me with the tools to put my life back together. Gradually, I was able to return to work full time and manage the pain and stress on a daily basis." -- Nancy L. Hale, Med, LMHC

"Dr. Margaret Caudill has been my pain doctor as well as professional colleague for many years... She has developed a clinically tested program recognized throughout the world... I trust that your use of the approach in Managing Pain Before It Manages You will aid you as much as it has the thousands who have already benefited from it." -- From the Foreword by Herbert Benson, MD, Author of The Relaxation Response

Find ways to tame what ails you with Managing Pain Before it Manages You.