Common Pain Conditions, 1st Edition
Paperback
Help students and practitioners learn to treat pain and chronic inflammation naturally with Micozzi’s Common Pain Conditions: A Clinical Guide to Natural Treatment. This groundbreaking title provides in-depth information on current natural pain therapies that utilize the latest scientific ideas, including the role of energy in medicine. Each chapter provides coverage on the biology and neuroscience, as well as social, psychological, and spiritual aspects, of each natural treatment approach along with clinical data and pragmatic information about healing pain using natural treatments. From anxiety, arthritis, back pain, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, migraine and tension headaches, phantom pain, post-traumatic stress, ulcers, and general chronic pain and inflammatory conditions, this book offers the insights and evidence-based guidance for students and practitioners to successfully learn to treat pain naturally.
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- Evidence-based approach focuses on natural treatments best supported by clinical trials and scientific evidence.
- Coverage of safe and effective natural treatments for the most common pain conditions prepares students and practitioners with a wide variety of options for treating the conditions they most likely encounter in practice.
- Experienced medical educator and author Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, lends extensive background researching natural therapies
- Case studies illustrate specific points and provide clinical applications for added context.
- Sidebars and in-text boxes present supplementary, brief background and observations in addition to covering specific topics in detail, and to help introduce complex and challenging topics.
- Psychometric Evaluation interactive appendix helps match each patient to the right, individualized, specific remedies.
- Suggested readings and references for each chapter provide great resources for further research and study.
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Section I. Fundamentals and Basic Sciences
1. The Problem of Pain and Pain Management: Why natural alternatives are needed
2. Bioenergetic Foundations of Pain & Inflammation
3. Geophysical and Biophysical Energy in Pain & Inflammation
4. Brain Biology and NeuroscienceSection II. Mind-Body Medicine
5. The Mind, Meditation and Mindfulness
6. Stress Management, Relaxation and Biofeedback Therapies
7. Mental Imagery, Visualization and Hypnosis
8. Mental and Spiritual Healing, and Spiritually-Based Rapid Healing
Section III. Energy Healing, Hand-Mediated & Biophysical Approaches
9. Energy Medicine and Healing Touch
10. Electro-Magnetic Therapies: Electricity and Magnetism
11. EM Therapies: Light and Phototherapies
12. Spinal Manual Therapy and Chiropractic
13. Massage, Manual Therapies and Bodywork
Section IV. Asian Medical Systems
14. Foundations of Chinese and East Asian Medicine
15. Acupuncture and Moxibustion
16. East Asian Manual & Movement Therapies, Part One: Acupressure, Jin Shin Do, Reflexology, Qi Gong, Tui Na
17. East Asian Manual and Movement Therapies, Part Two: Reiki, Shiatsu
18. Ayurveda and Traditional Treatments of India
19. Yoga and BreathingSection V. Natural Remedies for Pain, Inflammation and Diseases of Chronic Inflammation
20. Nutrition and Hydration, Part One: Vitamin and Mineral Micronutrients
21. Nutrition and Hydration, Part Two: Micronutrient Deficiencies
22. Nutrition and Hydration, Part Three: Pain Management with Micronutrients
23. Plant –Based Treatments, Part One: Herbal Remedies
24. Plant-Based Treatments, Part Two: Aromatherapy and Plant Essential OilsAppendix
Psychometric Evaluation of Pain
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