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The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, And The Science Of Suffering (2010)

by Melanie Thernstrom(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0865476810 (ISBN13: 9780865476813)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: Info was useful in many ways but author spent too much time (for me) in her head, waiting what seemed to be too long to get her own diagnosis and then withholding it from the reader. The basic gist is lots of research is going on but the way we treat pain (massage, physical therapy, shots, surgery) will not markedly change in the near future. What may change unfortunately (from the research of brain imaging) is another way for insurance companies to deny treatment. Fun fun.
review 2: My husband suffers from chronic pain. I had hoped this book would help me understand his experience, but it did not. It helped me understand Melanie Thernstrom's experience, and it proved that pain is an in individual, not a universal, burden. This is not a self-help book, but an e... morexploration of the ideas around pain, and it's an admirable endeavor. I would have liked it to be less meandering, but, again, this is the author's experience, not mine. There are worthwhile ideas to ponder here, but like chronic pain, no solutions, only pointers toward possible relief. less

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