Pain is Really Strange (eBook)

Graphic medicine

Steve Haines (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2015
32 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85701-212-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Understanding pain is a very good way of relieving it. This engaging, funny, and highly original research-based graphic book explains the nature of pain and how you can effectively relieve pain by changing your mind's habits.

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Answering questions such as 'how can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', and 'how do nerves work?', this short research-based graphic book reveals just how strange pain is and explains how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects.Studies show that understanding how pain is created and maintained by the nervous system can significantly lessen the pain you experience. The narrator in this original, gently humorous book explains pain in an easy-to-understand, engaging graphic format and reveals how to change the mind's habits to transform pain.

Autor

Steve Haines has been working in healthcare for over 25 years and as a bodyworker since 1998. Understanding the science of pain and trauma has transformed his approach to healing. He has studied Yoga, Shiatsu, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). He is a UK registered Chiropractor and teaches TRE and Cranial work all over the world. His treatments now use education, embodied awareness and light touch to help people move more freely and be more present. Steve lives and works between London and Geneva. (www.stevehaines.net).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2015
• Illustrationen: Sophie Standing
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrated throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
• Schlagworte: acute pain • Bodywork • chronic pain • Comic • Craniosacral • discomfort • Graphic • graphic fiction • graphic medicine • graphic medicine manifesto • Injury • Lumbar • Neurology • painkillers • pain management • pain relief • phantom limb • Physiology • spine • the bad doctor • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 0-85701-212-6 / 0857012126
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85701-212-8 / 9780857012128