MANAGE YOUR PAIN

by Dr MICHAEL NICHOLAS, Dr ALLAN MOLLOY, LOIS TONKIN and LEE BEESTON

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New softcover book, 272 pages, revised and updated edition published 2011

If you have been told to 'live with the pain', this book will show you how

This is a series of thoroughly tested techniques that enable sufferers of chronic pain to do something practical and positive to improve their lives.

Chronic pain has been described as a silent epidemic. The causes of chronic pain can range from a physical injury, arthritis or cancer, a neurological problem or environmental and psychological factors. Whatever the cause the sufferer endures complete disruption to their life and excruciating pain that no drug can alleviate. More than one in ten people - ten percent of the population - suffer from persisting pain. If you have chronic pain and you are wondering if this book could be helpful to you, try answering the following questions. Over the last month or so how often have you:

• Used pain killers so you can do something you know will stir up your pain?
• Done an activity until it is finished, regardless of pain, then rested?
• Found that pain is interfering with your sleep, work, sport and social activities?
• Had one or more long rest periods during the day due to pain?
• Had upsetting thoughts when your pain gets worse - like 'I can't go on'; 'it's killing me'?
• Worried that your doctors have missed something?
• Been told to 'live with the pain', but not shown how to do it?

If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then Manage Your Pain will help to improve your life.

All too frequently, chronic pain cannot be successfully treated. And drugs are not always the answer. But the combination of approaches provided by Manage Your Pain can help you learn to minimise the impact of pain, and put persisting pain where it belongs - in the background of your life.

In Manage Your Pain the authors have drawn on the latest scientific research and their extensive clinical experience to show you how to live with pain. Manage Your Pain will help you and your family to gain a better understanding of your pain and minimise the impact it has on your life. Manage Your Pain is a self-help book, but it can be used as part of a program worked out with your doctor, clinical psychologist and/or therapist. The book is now fully revised and updated to include a special chapter on pain management for older people, as well as clearly explaining the causes of pain and providing steps that anyone can take to minimise the impact of persistent pain on a sufferer's life, work and leisure.

Manage Your Pain is based on the well established and successful ADAPT Program at the University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin and Lee Beeston are senior members of the multidisciplinary ADAPT team at the Centre. The program has now been taken up by other pain clinics around the country and world-wide.

More about the ADAPT Program from the Pain Management Research Institute website:

ADAPT is for people who

• have had pain for more than 3-months
• have not responded to (evidence-based) medical or surgical treatments (and not suitable for further treatments)
• have not progressed in rehabilitation due to pain
• have become reliant on medication to cope with their pain
• have become distressed due to their pain
• and are prepared to try to get on with their lives and return to work(or normal life) despite their continuing pain.

For the seriously disabled, distressed, or medication-reliant patients. Generally, they are longer-term patients (more than 6-months post-injury). ADAPT is an intensive 3-week program (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday), with structured 4-week ‘home or work’ phase and individual follow-up as required.

Features include:

• medically supervised medication rationalisation/withdrawal
• withdrawal of unnecessary aids (sticks, braces, etc.)
• functional upgrading (individually-tailored)
• help with mood and sleep disturbances
• family/partner involvement, and
• rehabilitation planning for return-to-work steps (linked to local doctor and rehabilitation provider/employer as appropriate)

About the authors

Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin and Lee Beeston are senior members of the multidisciplinary ADAPT team at the University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Centre at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr Nicholas is Associate Professor, Clinical & Research Psychologist, Director of the ADAPT Pain Management Program; Dr Molloy is a Pain Medicine Specialist, Ms Lois Tonkin is a Physiotherapist and Ms Lee Beeston is Nurse Co-ordinator ADAPT Program.

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Manage Your Pain by Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin and Lee Beeston