In Chronic Pain Rehabilitation, you will discover:
• The three steps to active pain management that will get you moving again.
• The different types of pain and their causes.
• How to calm your overactive nervous system in order to reduce your pain.
• How to manage the stress that goes hand-in-hand with chronic pain.
• How to move keep moving forward even when pain is getting in your way.
What Experts Are Saying
This book is an excellent resource for chronic pain patients. The book educates patients about pain in ways that are simple to understand, and then offers a large number of practical suggestions for individuals with pain. Most pain patients are unaware of the large number of things they can do themselves to better manage their pain and as such become overly reliant on doctors and healthcare systems. But our healthcare systems often make individuals with chronic pain worse rather than better, by offering excessive diagnostic testing, unhelpful surgery or injections, or potentially harmful drugs.
Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Psychiatry and the Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at The University of Michigan
Reading Dr. Parks’ insights about an alternative way to view chronic pain has been eye-opening and provides a more optimistic approach in understanding and helping empower my patients. With information about the neuroscience of chronic pain and the adaptation of a more mind-body approach, I have realized that much of my previous treatment may not have been as beneficial as intended. This book should be mandatory reading for all medical students!
Staff Physician, Mary Free Bed Pain Rehabilitation Center
If you are on the roller coaster of medical treatments without relief, you need to hear what Dr. Parks has to say. If you are fed up and frustrated with pain and don’t like the life you are living, you need to hear what Dr. Parks has to say. It will not be easy. You will need to reconsider much of what you believe to be true, but the payoff will be well worth it.
Certified Therapeutic Pain Specialist
Dr. Evan Parks is a Clinical Psychologist working in Pain Rehabilitation at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital as well as an Adjunct AssistantProfessor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a regular contributor to Psychology Today as the author of the PainRehab blog. While working in Eastern Europe, Evan spent fifteen years teaching principles of mental health and responding to crisis situations throughout the region. During that time, he learned to appreciate how different cultures and demographics deal with pain and mental health problems. Throughout his life’s work, he has remained steadfast in helping people transform the physical and emotional problems that get in the way of a rich and rewarding life.