Brain Behind Pain (eBook)

Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

Akhtar Purvez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
252 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7281-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the important role of the brain in both the experience of pain and its resolution.Pain is a product of the brain, which announces it after being warned by a small army of nocioceptors stationed throughout the body, always on alert for any threat to the overall system. But there can be glitches in that process. Chronic pain often occurs when the brain remembers pain, even though the condition that caused it may have been dealt with and resolved. Still, pain is misunderstood by many, including both sufferers and the physicians they seek out to treat it. In recent years, though, new light has been shed on just what causes pain, how it is experienced in the body, how it can go haywire, and how it can be resolved. Pain may no longer be just a symptom of some other malady. In some cases, it becomes a condition all to itself.Here, Dr. Akhtar Purvez, a seasoned physician dedicated to the study and treatment of pain, offers a comprehensive view of how chronic pain is felt, transmitted, and modified by the nerves and the brain. He explores the interplay of the physiological, anatomical, and emotional aspects of pain in addition to the mental health aspects, cultural differences, and the role of addiction in pain sufferers. Alongside this enlightening overview, Dr. Purvez provides hope to readers as he details ways of treating pain and the new approaches that are becoming available. We all experience physical pain at some point in our lives, but no longer does it have to rule our lives or impact our functioning or overall wellness if we can find the right ways to understand and treat it. This work is the starting point.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
• Schlagworte: addiction • addiction medication • addiction painkillers • addiction to drugs • age of addiction • Arthritis • Back pain • Cancer pain • carpal tunnel syndrome • Chiropractic care • chronic pain • complementary medicine • complex pain • Complex regional pain syndrome • congenital insensitivity • congenital insensitivity to pain • culture of pain • curious pain phenomenon • Demerol • Disability • ECT • Endorphins • Fibromyalgia • Health Management • health policy • history of pain • Illness • injury treatment • Integrative Medicine • joint pain • Lyme disease • managing chronic pain • managing pain • Masochism • mental health pain • migraine • morphine • occupational therapy • Opiates • opioid crisis • opioid medication • Osteoarthritis • Overdose • Oxycontin • Pain • Pain-brain connection • pain cultural differences • pain diagnosis • Pain Medication • pain relief • pain relief history • pain signals • pain transmission • Pain Treatment • Phantom Limb syndrome • Physical Medicine • physical therapy • physiological pain • psychological causes of pain • purdue pharma • reflex sympathetic dystrophy • Rehabilitation • Repetitive Strain Injury • root of pain • RSD • the mystery of pain • treating pain • unexplained pain
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-7281-X / 153817281X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-7281-0 / 9781538172810