Price: $18.95
(as of May 04, 2024 17:34:28 UTC – Details)
Education and Pain Treatment Strategies to Help You Move and Function Better, Experience Less Pain, and Take Back Your Life
Pain is a normal human experience and is a powerful motivator that encourages us to stop, pay attention to why we hurt, and take care of a problem. However, living in pain is not normal. Chronic persistent pain can be frustrating, scary and exhausting. If you are experiencing persistent pain and wondering why you hurt and what to do about it, this book was written to educate you on how the nervous system and the brain process information and contribute to your pain experience.
The latest research shows that the more you know about pain and how it works, the better off you’ll be. Written by Adriaan Louw, a pain neuroscience expert and author of a comprehensive series of neuroscience books, this guide teaches the neuroscience of pain in easy-to-understand language and provides simple strategies to move and function better, experience less pain, and increase your ability and interest in participating in healthy exercises and movement.
This book provides therapeutic neuroscience education to help you listen to your body, respond to your body’s messages in a healthy way, and set goals to start getting back to the activities that you find enjoyable and meaningful.
In Why Do I Hurt? A Patient Book About The Neuroscience Of Pain you’ll learn:
The role of the nervous system and the brain in the experience of painHow nerves work like an “alarm system” to alert your brain that there is a problemCommon contributors to painHow pain in one area of the body affects other parts of the bodyHow your body systems react to protect youHow prolonged pain can cause symptoms like mood swings, appetite changes, fatigue, stomach sensitivity and moreHow to treat pain and take back your lifeStrategies for healthy exercise and how it can help reduce painLifestyle changes that can help treat pain including knowledge, breathing and relaxation, aerobic exercise, sleep and moreHow to set realistic goals and safely and effectively move towards them
Written by Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD. Illustrated. Softcover; 54 pages.
From the Publisher
Why Do I Hurt? A Patient Book about the Neuroscience of Pain
Patients don’t have to live in pain. Studies show patients who have been educated about the neuroscience of pain are able to function better, exercise more and experience less pain. Written by acclaimed pain neuroscience educator and physical therapist, Adriaan Louw, Why Do I Hurt? puts the science of pain in a format accessible to all.
Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD: renowned author and pain researcher
Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 20 years at numerous national and international manual therapy, pain science and medical conferences. He is a Certified Spinal Manual Therapist, Therapeutic Pain Specialist and has authored and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters related to spinal disorders and pain science. He is the Director of the Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group – an independent collaborative initiative studying pain neuroscience and is the Program Director of the Therapeutic Pain Specialist and Pain Science Fellowship post-graduate program for Evidence in Motion.
Educational Guide with Visual Tools
Why Do I Hurt? is designed to provide:
A clear, concise, and accessible way of looking at the science of painResources for patientsA better understanding of how chronic pain can impact you
Add to Cart
Add to Cart
Add to Cart
Add to Cart
Add to Cart
Customer Reviews
4.3 out of 5 stars
154
5.0 out of 5 stars
2
4.4 out of 5 stars
24
4.3 out of 5 stars
216
4.7 out of 5 stars
75
Price
$25.95$25.95 $11.95$11.95 $239.95$239.95 $37.80$37.80 $16.95$16.95
Focus
Pelvic pain Children’s guide to pain education Science of pain Science of pain Pain education for older patients
Written by Adriaan Louw
✓
✓
✓
Format
Paperback Paperback Flashcard system w/case Paperback Paperback
Publisher : Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products (January 1, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 54 pages
ISBN-10 : 1942798350
ISBN-13 : 978-1942798354
Reading age : 15 years and up
Item Weight : 4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
