How to Reduce Your Patients’ Chronic Pain:

         As a healthcare professional who treats patients with chronic pain, you know firsthand how difficult aand frustrating it can be to treat them effectively. and safely. In this new book, Dr. Beilin offers the Pain Management Model, a  comprehensive strategy for helping your patients live better by handling chronic pain in its many dimensions (physical, emotional, cognitive, life stressors and fortitude). This model not only helps your patients by empowering them to use a set of pain scales to self-monitor their pain levels. It also offers you and your fellow pain management team members to provide new hope and real help to chronic pain patients and their caregivers.  Pain management is reframed as helping patients confront "ongoing, intermittent life challenges."  It is not a fruitless search for an elusive "instant" cure. 

     Treating chronic pain requires an ongoing team effort. Whether you are a primary care physician, clinical nurse practitioner, physical therapist, chiropractor, or mental health professional on the pain management team, you'll feel that this book's new perspective on treating chronic pain will help reduce your own feelings of burnout and overload. Using the Pain management Lifestyle Model also enables you and your fellow pain management team members to provide hope and help to chronic pain patients and their caregivers. 

Foreword         
    Introduction     
    Chapter 1:     Why I Wrote This Book
    Chapter 2:     The Pain Management Team
    Chapter 3:     Ten Facts About Chronic Pain
    Chapter 4:     A Model to Reduce Your Patients’ Pain
    Chapter 5:     The Five Pain Scales    
    Chapter 6:     A Case Study    
    Chapter 7:     Overall Strategies to Reduce Your Patients’ Chronic Pain
    Chapter 8:     Physical Ways to Reduce Your Patients’ Chronic Pain
    Chapter 9:     Ways to Reduce Your Patients’ Pain from Life Stressors
    Chapter 10:     Ways to Reduce Your Patients’ Emotional Pain
    Chapter 11:     Ways to Reduce Your Patients’ Pain from Negative Cognitive Appraisals
    Chapter 12:     Ways to Reduce Your Patients’ Pain by Improving Fortitude Skills
    Chapter 13:     Conclusion
    Acknowledgments
    About the Author