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ISBN-10: 1481117564
ISBN-13: 9781481117562
Edition: N/A
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This book is a practical, and yet medically informed guide for those suffering from Chronic Back Pain. The pain and the disorders that generate them are both infamous for generating pain that defies description, but carrying a deep suspicion surrounding that pain. The single most important reason to read this book is its grounding in the lives of patient with formidable problems. A small percentage, at best, take on the task of seeing the depth of these patients' problems. Here we see the patient, couple, dating teens, and retired bakers throughout the day and into the night. Diagnostic medical tools reveal core elements of the problem, but hardly the impact it is having at home and in the… workplace. Most important, is that the vast majority of the solutions to the loss of sexual desire and how to retrieve it came from patients. As the number of hours spent in interviews began to mount, (and there were hundreds of them), it was clear that no controlled studies were going to reveal solutions that had been fought for by patients in love, and fighting to keep that love alive. A first edition of this text attempted to generate solutions from stories gleaned from clinical work: precious minutes ending in prescription pads and concern over the lengthening line in the office. The interviews were experiences in and of themselves. Sometimes individual, and sometimes with couples, but often with entire families gathered together, insuring that compassion was public, visible and shared. The second most valuable information generated in this book may be the tasteful but specific discussion of "safe sexual positions". It is presented at the end of the book, for reasons that will become clear. It is clear that the solutions passed on by the patients could not, in a hundred years, be generated by "the seasoned physician" - certainly not at this level. This book revealed the riches of life by those who cherished it. While the book sounds like a critique of western medicine, the context it provided was critical as well: not all patients are heroes in this text. Many of them have yet to see medical issues that must still be addressed. The rise of pain control management as an area in medicine gave many of these patients relief that allowed them to return to productive lives. Yet it also introduced addiction as an ever-present threat, and one that even "seasoned patients" can become prey too, and even deny. The book makes is clear that disciplined limits and healthy living must re-enter patients' lives. "Indicators" of problems be developed and addressed - not just with opiates, but with social isolation, depression, failure to act on treatment plans, and the like.This book is not the kind you read from front to back. It is, however, a text that was generated by a team of caring, honest and thorough patients and physicians hoping to provide a path out of a black forest that has existed for far too long. We hope we have traced an accurate outline of a serious problem, and the presence of needless suffering. Ideally, questions will be answered in weeks instead of months, or months instead of years. If we have not provided the means to achieve that, we will return to homes that must be visited, and return to the keyboard as well. With luck, we will be armed with information richer in detail, from both patients and practitioners alike.