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Total recovery : solving the mystery of chronic pain and depression : how we get sick, why we stay sick, how we can recover / Dr. Gary Kaplan, DO, with Donna Beech.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Emmaus, Pennsylvania] : Rodale, [2014]Description: xxii, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 162336275X (hardcover)
  • 9781623362751 (hardcover)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Pt. 1: Asking new questions. The one-two punch : what if assaults are cumulative? ; Listening for clues : what if physical traumas build up? ; The canary in the coal mine : what if pain and emotion are signs of the same thing? -- Pt. 2: Solving the mystery. Eureka! : discovering the single point of origin ; Hidden connections : how allergies and malnutrition created panic attacks ; Conflicting truths : how food, malaria, and a fender bender led to fibromyalgia ; Unsuspected impact : how childhood abuse and infection caused chronic pain -- Pt. 3: The path to total recovery. Stacking the deck in your favor : what you can do ; Conclusion: A game-changing insight : what it all means.
Summary: Chronic pain has always been a mystery. For the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from it, chronic pain often returns at the slightest provocation, even when doctors can't find anything wrong. Conventional treatments focus on symptoms, not causes, and can leave patients locked into a lifetime of suffering. Here, Dr. Gary Kaplan argues that we've been thinking about the nature of pain all wrong. Drawing on patient stories and cutting-edge research, Dr. Kaplan concludes that chronic physical and emotional pain are two sides of the same coin. Whether pain is traumatic or slight, physical or emotional, our brains register all pain as the same thing, and these signals can keep firing in the nervous system for years. Moreover, Dr. Kaplan asserts, disease is not the result of a single event, but an accumulation of traumas. Every injury, every infection, every toxin, and every emotional blow generates the same reaction: inflammation, activated by tiny cells in the brain called microglia. Turned on from too many assaults, their stimulation can have a devastating cumulative effect. Dr. Kaplan's unified theory of chronic pain and depression helps us understand not only the causes but also the issues we must address to create a pathway to healing. With this revolutionary new framework in place, we have been given the keys to recover.--From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

About 100 million Americans live with some form of chronic pain--more than the combined number who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But chronic pain has always been a mystery. It often returns at the slightest provocation, even when doctors can't find anything wrong. Oddly enough, whether the pain is physical or emotional, traumatic or slight, our brains register all pain as the same thing, and these signals can keep firing in the nervous system for months, even years.

In Total Recovery, Dr. Gary Kaplan argues that we've been thinking about disease all wrong. Drawing on dramatic patient stories and cutting-edge research, the book reveals that chronic physical and emotional pain are two sides of the same coin. New discoveries show that disease is not the result of a single event but an accumulation of traumas. Every injury, every infection, every toxin, and every emotional blow generates the same reaction: inflammation, activated by tiny cells in the brain, called microglia. Turned on too often from too many assaults, it can have a devastating cumulative effect.

Conventional treatment for these conditions is focused on symptoms, not causes, and can leave patients locked into a lifetime of pain and suffering. Dr. Kaplan's unified theory of chronic pain and depression helps us understand not only the cause of these conditions but also the issues we must address to create a pathway to healing. With this revolutionary new framework in place, we have been given the keys to recover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1: Asking new questions. The one-two punch : what if assaults are cumulative? ; Listening for clues : what if physical traumas build up? ; The canary in the coal mine : what if pain and emotion are signs of the same thing? -- Pt. 2: Solving the mystery. Eureka! : discovering the single point of origin ; Hidden connections : how allergies and malnutrition created panic attacks ; Conflicting truths : how food, malaria, and a fender bender led to fibromyalgia ; Unsuspected impact : how childhood abuse and infection caused chronic pain -- Pt. 3: The path to total recovery. Stacking the deck in your favor : what you can do ; Conclusion: A game-changing insight : what it all means.

Chronic pain has always been a mystery. For the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from it, chronic pain often returns at the slightest provocation, even when doctors can't find anything wrong. Conventional treatments focus on symptoms, not causes, and can leave patients locked into a lifetime of suffering. Here, Dr. Gary Kaplan argues that we've been thinking about the nature of pain all wrong. Drawing on patient stories and cutting-edge research, Dr. Kaplan concludes that chronic physical and emotional pain are two sides of the same coin. Whether pain is traumatic or slight, physical or emotional, our brains register all pain as the same thing, and these signals can keep firing in the nervous system for years. Moreover, Dr. Kaplan asserts, disease is not the result of a single event, but an accumulation of traumas. Every injury, every infection, every toxin, and every emotional blow generates the same reaction: inflammation, activated by tiny cells in the brain called microglia. Turned on from too many assaults, their stimulation can have a devastating cumulative effect. Dr. Kaplan's unified theory of chronic pain and depression helps us understand not only the causes but also the issues we must address to create a pathway to healing. With this revolutionary new framework in place, we have been given the keys to recover.--From publisher description.

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