Contrary to popular belief, the most frequent causes of neuromuscular, joint, or skeletal pain can be traced to your lifestyle: unconscious habits that involve the way you breathe, stand, and move and the way you store physical and emotional stress in your tissues. Given this fact, if you suffer from chronic pain, or treat people suffering from chronic pain, you may need to consider replacing expensive, often inefficient pain treatment with self-help methods for reversing the way physical, mental, and emotional stresses affect your muscles, joints, and bones. Effortless Pain Relief presents a unique mind-body program for overcoming chronic pain, developed by acclaimed alternative health-care practitioner Dr. Ingrid Bacci. In Effortless Pain Relief, you'll find a simple explanation of how stress creates chronic pain, along with clear, simple, and powerful self-help techniques for reducing and even eliminating pain. The guiding principle in this program for self-healing from chronic pain is to develop greater awareness of your body and sensitivity to it. You can change your lifestyle habits -- and eliminate your pain -- by adopting body awareness techniques that eliminate tension. Chapter by chapter, Effortless Pain Relief shows you how to release deep physical, mental, and emotional stresses through simple breathing techniques, to reduce consciously the effort and tension in your muscles, and to master and eliminate stressful emotions like fear and anger by learning to control the physical tensions that these feelings create. Dr. Bacci also guides you in a process that will allow you to let go of mental and emotional attitudes that unconsciously create stress and physical pain. She shows you how to release emotional conflicts that contribute to pain and teaches you how to conquer the fear of physical pain -- which can actually trigger pain. Dr. Bacci cites numerous case studies from the thousands of patients she has helped during the past fifteen years. She also tells the extraordinary story of her own complete recovery from three years of being bedridden and crippled from a severe case of the chronic pain syndrome fibromyalgia. The curative techniques through which she healed herself, and with which she has helped her thousands of clients achieve freedom from pain, are now available for everyone in Effortless Pain Relief. Dr. Bacci's groundbreaking, accessible program offers deceptively simple yet profoundly effective ways to leave pain behind, enhance your vitality, and find an effortless route to a pain-free life.

The most frequent causes of neuromuscular, joint, or skeletal pain can be traced to your lifestyle: unconscious habits that involve the way you breathe, stand, & move & the way you store physical & emotional stress in your tissues. This book includes clear, simple, & powerful self-help techniques for reducing & even eliminating pain. You can change your lifestyle habits, & eliminate your pain, by adopting body awareness techniques that eliminate tension. The book shows you how to release physical, mental, & emotional stresses through breathing techniques, to reduce consciously the effort & tension in your muscles, & to master & eliminate stressful emotions like fear & anger by learning to control the physical tensions that these feelings create. Illus.

Modern medicine's typical response to back pain has been to prescribe surgery or strong painkillers, yet conventional medicine has been unable to eradicate pain completely. Not only that, but the countless, often contradictory training and therapy approaches, misleading schools of thought about back problems, and empty healing promises of alternative medicine often lead a person afflicted with back pain on an almost endless journey of confusion and despair. But those with back pain need search no longer. In this book, you will look at where back problems really come from and determine your best way to alleviate pain. Using his EFFORTLESS method, author Ramin Waraghai will aid you in deciding which activities will help you personally achieve sustainable back health. With this method, you will address: By following the EFFORTLESS system, you are guaranteed to achieve a strong, healthy, and pain-free back! With this method you will address Exercises Favorite activities Fuel (nutrition) Optimizing environment Reason determination Treatment Load management Ergonomics Social support Stress management By following EFFORTLESS system, you are guaranteed to achieve a strong, healthy, and pain-free back!

A practical, effective, and inspiring guidebook for dealing with chronic pain • Explains how to reduce pain’s grip on the body and mind by changing your personal reaction to pain • Presents successful strategies from the author’s 25 years of coping with her own pain • Includes 55-minute CD of author’s key techniques for controlling pain In 1989, following surgery for a back injury, Jan Sadler was left in constant pain, with no hope of any further conventional treatment and no adequate prescription drug therapy. Rather than settle for a life of chronic suffering, she gave up her career teaching English and began an investigation into the self-treatment of her pain. Building on her skills as a teacher, she incorporated the pain management techniques she discovered into programs that would help other sufferers learn how to cope with pain and find truly effective relief from its debilitating effects. Sadler shows how we can reduce pain’s grip by changing our personal reactions to the pain we are feeling. Chronic pain keeps our attention fixed firmly on our anguish, which then feeds the painful reaction back into our perception of being in pain, creating a vicious cycle. By allowing our reaction to become one of relaxation and acceptance, the pain is dramatically lessened, both by the absence of a negative perception and by the infusion of relaxation into the point of pain. In Pain Relief without Drugs, Sadler provides easy-to-use self-help techniques that offer support and understanding in breaking pain’s cycle--from relaxation, visualization, and breathing techniques to setting goals, building self-esteem, and coping with pain flare-ups. The author’s 25 years of coping with her own pain and 16 years of teaching pain management techniques result in a book that is filled with practical activities and possibilities for a better life. The book is accompanied by a 55-minute CD narrated by the author of key techniques for controlling pain.

Modern medicine?s typical response to back pain is often surgery or strong painkillers, yet this conventional medicine is unable to eradicate the pain completely. Not only that, but the countless, often contradictory training and therapy approaches, wrong schools of thought about back problems, and empty healing promises of alternative medicine often lead a person afflicted with back pain on an almost endless journey of confusion and despair.

DISCOVER A PROVEN PATH TO PAIN RELIEF With empathy and scientific savvy, pain expert Dr. Saloni Sharma offers a personalized and innovative five-step pain relief program built on what she calls “microboosts,” little steps that add up to big results. Illustrated with inspiring patient examples and personal stories, her drug-free plan will enable you to: understand the unique factors contributing to your pain develop a path to resuming your most cherished activities add easy food microboosts to reduce inflammation and support your pain-fighting gut microbiome move better, at home and at work, to release natural neurochemical painkillers recharge and recover through sleep, mindfulness, stress reduction, and supportive social relationships More than just a road map to less pain, this is a guide to the greater joy, health, and well-being that every person deserves.

This book is based on the take-charge approach to managing chronic pain practiced at Mayo?s Comprehensive Pain Rehabilitation Center. Inside this book is thorough, easy-to-read information about the same solutions offered to patients.