Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain

After 6 surgeries, chronic pain and 9 years on pain meds I was done.This book (and Ashley Treatment Center) set me on a path where I feel more alive and in less pain.It's been hard.Who would have thought detoxing off doctor prescribed meds could be such hell?!Thank God though, the daily, level 7 pain I lived with is down to a 2-3 (with NO narcotics)!Recovery began here.I'm learning a new way of dealing with pain - rather than curse it, or reach for a pill, to somehow use what I've learned to work through the anxiety. And this book was one of the practical tools - especially when I wrote out my answers in the workbook.Frankly, it's been a wake up call. I was numbing my pain - which was separating me from relationships with others and the God of my understanding.Thankfully, I am slowly reconnecting with my own heart as well as those I love.

Good book for those needing help and just starting our in there journey with chronic pain. I found it talked much too much about addiction and not as much as I wish to learn about chronic pain. I understand the two can go hand-in-hand for so many but it became somewhat tedious if this is not an issue for you. Unfortunately, I have already after 20 years discovered 90% of what this book recommended and I could have taught them some more.I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED this book if you are new or are struggling with ANY chronic pain issues. These Doctors have found some wonderful solutions for you but only if you decide to apply them to your life.

I have suffered with spinal problems for a long time. I got addicted to prescribed opiates due to the problem. (The pain is 90% better OFF the pain meds!)Dr. Pohl was due to speak at an event near where I live. I got the book to see if it could help. It did! Many of the concepts in the book have worked well for me.Chronic pain is an issue suffered by many. This book helped me in a big way.

I'm not, but still reading it for what I can learn to help me with my chronic pain. I Didn't realize the focus, when I ordered mine.

much of the cognitive tools are available on-line

Good Plan !N.H.

Good information!

...well, that's what these authors believe. It feels like a majority of this book is focused on convincing the reader they have a pain pill problem. What's that? You don't think you do? Oh, you are obviously in denial.I found this material incredibly offensive. I wish they would have been more upfront about what they really were pedaling: getting more patients into their rehab facilities. Instead, they weave semi-helpful information (how not to fear pain) with junk science like using magnet therapy to help pain. Oh yeah, and if you are in chronic pain they suggest you go to a 12-step meeting because it will be helpful. At one point in the book they use a full page to compare how pain patients are like addicts.And one more fun push: "spirituality." Apparently atheist pain sufferers can't truly heal if we don't trust a higher power.This book is insulting, quite misguided (the actual percentage of addicted pain patients is staggering low), and offers minimal usable advice.