Validate Your Pain!
Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
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If
you suffer from chronic pain, then chances are you have read one or more of the
“pain management” books on the market. Even so, you have never read a book like
Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up.
In Validate Your Pain! Drs. Chino and Davis have boldly departed
from business as usual for pain books.
First
of all, although there are many well-written pain books, it seems that many are
written in a rather sterile and antiseptic style. I guess you could argue that
these books help you manage your pain by putting you to sleep. Validate Your
Pain! is just the opposite. Drs. Chino and Davis
are not afraid to spice up the presentation through the use of humorous
vignettes, colloquialisms, rhythmic sentence construction, running gags, slang,
puns, and the like. This writing style brings the information to life. Validate
Your Pain! is like talking with an old friend who
also happens to be an expert in the field of chronic pain.
Second,
Validate your Pain! dares to takes the position
of patient advocate.
The
authors not only do an excellent job of covering the “how to” aspects of pain management,
Drs. Chino and Davis also deal with controversial topics that are of the utmost
concern to those who suffer from chronic pain:
- Doctors who actually work against you as a
patient
- How doctors will assume the pain is “all in your
head” if a straightforward cause can’t be found
- The role of narcotic medications
- How managed care will often keep the solution to
your chronic pain out of reach
As
stated in the introduction, the goal of Validate Your Pain! is to “arm you with ‘insider’ information that will help you
to maneuver through the healthcare mine field so that you do not become yet
another victim of the abuse that is going on” while helping you take control of
your pain. Validate Your Pain! achieves this
goal and more.
William W. Deardorff, Ph.D., ABPP
Fellow, American Psychological
Association
Past President, American Academy of Health Psychology
Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
Co-author:
Back Pain Remedies for Dummies
Win the
Preparing for Surgery: A Mind–Body Approach to
Enhance Healing and Recovery
The Practice of Clinical Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
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About the Book
Individuals
with chronic pain suffer not only from the torment of physical pain, but also
from a healthcare system that, through ignorance, arrogance, and greed, further
abuses them. Written in plain English by pain specialists, Validate Your Pain! Exposing the
Chronic Pain Cover-Up (3rd Edition) tells the inside story
of a healthcare system gone awry and of how individuals with chronic pain pay
the price in terms of physical, emotional, and financial suffering.
But
it goes further. Validate Your Pain! helps the reader to transcend validation and move toward
empowerment and recovery from the bonds of chronic pain by providing practical,
step-by-step advice for successfully maneuvering through the healthcare
minefield. No other book takes on these important and controversial issues. Validate Your Pain! does.
“...I urge all pain patients and professionals
to hear the message of Validate Your
Pain! This courageous book is right on target and shows the way to
compassionate care of the future...NOW!
There is nothing else even close to this book on the market.”
...Patti Wright, Leader and
Founder,
Fibromyalgia Friends Support Group
About the Author
Allan F. Chino, Ph.D., ABPP is board certified in
Clinical Health Psychology and Past President of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. He set up two and
directed three CARF-accredited pain
rehabilitation programs in northern California and Oregon. Currently in private
practice near Portland, Oregon, Dr. Chino was elected to the Board of Directors
of the Oregon Psychological Association.
He also serves on the Oregon Pain
Management Commission which is charged with identifying and providing the
legislature with recommendations for removing barriers to the provision of
effective pain management in the state.
He has conducted biobehavioral research in the area of fibromyalgia. In
addition to being a father (of two) and a husband (of one), Dr. Chino is a
musician, a video producer, and former moderator of the board of deacons at his
church.
Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. is
board certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and
Electrodiagnostic Medicine. With Dr. Chino, she developed and directed a
CARF-accredited hospital-based pain rehabilitation program in northern
California. Having had her fill of practicing in a corporate hospital setting,
she now provides medical pain management services in her private practice. In
addition, she works for the federal government as a clinician, researcher, and
educator of doctors in training. Dr. Davis is a devoted wife, mother, and
active member of her church.