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p>Burning. Shooting. Stabbing. Sometimes the cause is unknown. Sometimes it begins as the result of an injury. Whatever form it takes, chronic pain often resists treatment. In this eBook, we examine the latest advances in understanding the pathology of chronic pain and the efforts to find better, non-opioid treatment options including electrical stimulation of nerves, venom from spiders and other creatures and psychological interventions including virtual-reality therapy and acupuncture. Copyright 2 Title Page 3 Table of Contents 4 Introduction 8 SECTION 1 What Is Pain? 10 1.1 Painful Progress 11 1.2 Neuropathy: A Name for Their Pain 15 SECTION 2 Why We Hurt 20 2.1 Pain That Won’t Quit 21 2.2 When Pain Lingers 30 2.3 New Culprits in Chronic Pain 39 2.4 Genetics: An Incomplete Mosaic 51 SECTION 3 The Psychological Side of Pain 56 3.1 The Psychology of Pain 57 3.2 I Do Not Feel Your Pain 65 3.3 No Brain, No Pain 75 3.4 Subliminal Messages Influence Pain 80 SECTION 4 Migraines and Other Miseries 83 4.1 Can Anything Stop My Migraine? 84 4.2 Deciphering Cluster Headaches 93 4.3 Agony in the Brain 95 4.4 Hear the Violet, Taste the Velvet 97 4.5 Phantom Limbs 105 4.6 The Maddening Sensati

Author

Scientific American Editors

Publisher

The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250121592

Subjects

Psychology, Management, Health & Fitness