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Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
by Allan F., Ph.D. Chino, Corinne Dille, M.D. Davis
Product Group: Book
Publisher: InSync Communications (2000-03-01)
ISBN: 0967343925
EAN: 9780967343921
Dewy Decimal #: 618
Paperback: 374 pages
SKU: N1141
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"Sorry, the pain you're experiencing is most likely merely muscle related." "Your current health plan won't cover treatment for the pain you are experiencing." "We just can't seem to come with any explanation for the pain you say you are feeling." Does any of this sound familiar? It should. These are common responses to the thousands upon thousands of individuals who suffer from chronic pain. Now there is a book, written in plain English, that gives you the inside scoop on chronic pain. This is no antiseptic, sterile and dry piece of reading. This is a book that delivers direct, no-nonsense, in-your-face answers to the many questions plaguing pain sufferers. Here you will read about the old concept that "it's all in your head" and how to overcome that standard assumption. Learn how managed care can keep you and a solution to your pain problem apart. Here's down-to-earth, honest, insider's information on manuvering through the minefields within healthcare and how to avoid becoming just another statistic or victim. Validate Your Pain! provides the reader with confirmation that what they feel is real and instructs one how to go about getting a solution to the pain they live with. Don't let ignorance, arrogance and/or greed prohibit you or a loved one from getting access to proper treatment. Get the help you deserve. Don't let doctors or insurance companies sweep you under the chronic pain rug. Here is a sampling of the 17 chapters in Validate Your Pain!:
"The Doctors know Best...or Do They?"
"'It's All in Your Head' and Other Popular Fairy Tales"
"Narcotics and the Fear of Addiction: Or Much Ado about Almost Nothing"
"Chiropratic"
"Acupuncture"
"Surgery and Other Desperate Measures"
"The Managed Care Experiment"
"Stacking the Deck in Your Favor" If you or someone you know suffers from debilitating, chronic pain, you should read this book SOON.
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Customer Reviews
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Doctors & their brutal refusal to treat pain stands revealed.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I suffer from debilitating "nonspecific" chronic headaches. Doctors have spent four years trying, and failing, to slap a label (diagnoses) on this pain. Because it is diagnosed as nonspecific, most physicians refuse to provide me with a specific, nonnarcotic pain medication that time and experience has proven extremely effective on a regular basis. because my headaches currently remain undiagnosed, my chronic and extreme pain is regarded as suspect. The reality of actual severe pain is dismissed by doctors as imagined, psychosomatic, hyperchondrial, or "drug-seeking behavior" on my part. For the most part, for over ten years, I have not received proper, adequate or humane treatment for actual, real and terrible pain. This book has given me the key to solving this critical state of medical affairs when it comes to negligent or non-existant pain treatment that is crucial and required by myself and countless others who suffer needlessly. A concise, witty, inteligent and most importantly, an invaluable book on the subject is available. This is that book. My highest recommendation.
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Validate your pain
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-09
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I think this book is right on. I have had chronic back pain for years and every doctor tells me it is in my head, or I need physical therapy. If I could do the exercises they want you to do in therapy, I would nt need a doctor. The worst thing is finding someone to believe you and who is willing to do all that is possible to help. Doctors are too quick to just blow you off when it comes to chronic pain.
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Easy to Understand
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-05
More geared to the US than New Zealand because of the differences in the medical insurance systems but a lot of very valuable information that would be applicable anywhere. The information about how doctors do things gives more confidence when dealing with the medical profession which can be very hard at times. Doctors become very nervous when they cannot put things into little boxes and give solutions to problems which leads to the pain sufferer being pushed out into the cold sometimes. Recent experience has shown that attitudes within the medical profession are changing and doctors are opening up to new methods of pain treatment that give the patient more hope for the future. No doubt books like this have played a significant part in this change of attitude.
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ok
Rating  (3)
Date: 2003-05-30
I found some areas helpful.
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Validate Your Pain-Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-08
39 out of 42 customers found this reveiw helpful
Run, limp, order it online- but DEFINTELY obtain this book ASAP if you are a pain survivor, work with pain patients or if a loved one suffers from chronic pain. This book is outstanding and sincere. I use it as an invaluable resource and I use it for emotional support. The approach is right-on-target and empowering. The utter contempt pain patients face on a daily basis from the medical community, indifferent (sometimes frustrated) and ignorant doctors and nurses, acquaintances, friends and family is appalling and barbaric.
I was recently referred to a pain clinic associated with a respected university and I went relunctantly. The two doctors I encountered were utter clowns. I knew more about neurology and medicines applicable to my situation than they did- which is terrifying. To think that people, in the most horrific of pain have no choice but to turn to these "Keystone doctors" when they are in the most desperate of situations is truly of nightmarish implications. As anesthesiologists they were already discussing "shots" before I even gave them my pain history. The doctor who took the history "zoned-out" in the middle while I related my history. I did not fit neatly into any of his boxes. As a teacher it is my job to know when someone is not paying attention. I had to resist the urge to tell him "to sit up straight and pay attention". Nor was he even following what I was saying (that is also my job to determine if a listener understands.They could not diagnose me, recognized I was bright and well-informed, and was not going to stand for any of their nonsense. They could not get me out of there fast enough and kept looking for one feeble excuse after another. Six years of unrelenting, daily pain that never goes away, is getting worse and they said I was doing "just fine". I was butchered by a endodontist who is still out there "practicing".I can barely hold down a job. The most mundane task is a major event. They couldn't wait to get me out of there which was fine with me. I am certain they could not even pass a basic logic class.
This book explains a myriad of procedures and covers countless medications. Drs. David and Chino brought to my attention a medication that is actually helping me. I have scoured the Internet in search of help but their book is packed with information I may never have found. The information is compassionate and up-to-date.
My only regret is that I live in the Midwest and cannot further benefit from the expertise and empathy of these forthright, pragmatic pain specialists.
But I cannot thank them enough.
BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!
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