Your compassionate guide to conquering pain and living a full life
Do you suffer from chronic pain? This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the newest pain-relieving techniques. You'll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you.
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Charles J. Vierck, Jr., PhD: Dr. Vierck has spent 40-plus years conducting leading edge research to better understand how our bodies feel pain. He is currently working with colleagues to develop new tools for diagnosing and treating fibromyalgia, a painful and debilitating disease that affects primarily women.
Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida School of Medicine, Dr. Vierck is the former director of the Center for Neurobiological Sciences in the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Javitz Neuroscience Investigator Award, a national prize for scientists. His articles appear regularly in Pain and The Journal of Pain. Dr. Vierck is coauthor of Medical Neuroscience (Saunders).
Elizabeth Vierck, MS: Dr. Vierck’s sister is a well-known information specialist and writer on health and aging. She writes extensively and frequently about arthritis (all forms), inflammation, aging, and other diseases that involve chronic pain.
Ms. Vierck is a Denver-based consultant and writes for many national aging and health organizations. Ms. Vierck is a widely published author with 17 books and numerous other publications to her credit, including the Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Anti-Inflammation Diet (with Dr. Christopher Cannon, Penguin), Health Smart (Simon & Schuster), Aging (two volumes, Greenwood), and Keys to Understanding Arthritis (Barrons). Ms. Vierck worked for the U.S. Senate for more than a decade, including the Special Committee on Aging and Labor and Human Resources Committee.
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