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Title: Utah: the perfect genetics lab: big families, Mormon Church records, and even 19th-century polygamy are proving a boon to the study of genes and genealogy.(National)
Author: Kirk Johnson
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 14, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 137Issue: 10Page: 18(2)

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If you are one of the 50 million Americans who suffer from pain and have searched to no avail for a smart, safe, and, most of all, effective solution, you may find relief in Dr. Norman Marcus's Freedom from Pain. Adapted from Dr. Marcus's remarkable narcotics-free New York Pain Treatment Program at Lenox Hill Hospital, this book will teach you, in carefully graduated steps, how to surrender the attitudes that are holding you prisoner to pain and how to master the physical and mental techniques that can set you free -- techniques that have had an unprecedented success rate and will work with just about any type of chronic pain, including lower-back ailments, headaches, and arthritis.

Dr. Marcus is both supportive and sympathetic, giving even the most severe cases reason for optimism, and his book is the next best thing to a visit to the Pain Treatment Program itself. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Cronic Pain
This book is good at explaining cronic pain and giving methoeds to deal
with it.

It has helped

Puts pain in the proper perspective
I have been "suffering" chronic pain for over a year.The first thing that hit me with this easy to read book was that I have a choice to take control rather than just giving in and becoming addicted to the first thing doctors suggest -- narcotic pain medication.Because of the suggestions in this book I am working with my doctors at the pain management clinic to get off of these drugs.I am learning to change my focus immediately when I feel the pain and to integrate many forms of treatment.It is well worth the read.

Other Recommedations

Other Recommendations Instead of:

`Healing Back Pain Naturally' by Art Brownstein MD
(he went through many years of back pain, including surgery. I liked the positive approach of the book and the variety of options from medical to herbal, etc)

`The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief' by Clair Davies

`The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook' by Martha Davis PhD, etc etc
(I esp liked the chapter on Meditation, since they were easy and had a variety of ones to choose from to try out)

`Living Better Every Patient's Guide to Living with Illness' by Carol J. Langenfeld and Douglas E. Langenfeld

`Staying Well With Guided Imagery' by Belleruth Naparstek

`Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up' by Allan Chino, PhD and Corinne Dile Davis MD

Yes, this is worth every cent you pay for it.
I have just completed a 10 day therapeutic session with Dr. Marcus and for the first time in 27 years I am feeling like a normal person. I no longer am "a patient", which is an insidious condition in your mind that can happen suddenly, or very slowly, as it did for me. I spent the last8 years searching constantly for any kind of relief--from acupuncture to chiropractic to physical therapy and eventually giving in to whatever meds I could get prescribed for me...nothing worked.

Today, 10 days after beginning his treatment, I have a completely new outlook on the remainder of my life. I still have some pain, but it is not overwhelming, nor is it depressing, nor keeping me from living the life I have ahead of me to its fullest. This book helps you adjust your mindset in various ways in very simple, nonsensical ways. It is easy to read, and, when you are ready, easy to follow. I can't praise him or his book any more than this. He's a top-rated doc in Manhattan for the last 3 years and there's a good reason for it. His book will help you get to him or at least his ideas, and to stay with those concepts for as long as it takes to life a full life again.

Clear strategy given for chronic pain sufferers.
This book is a good read for those of us who have attempted many differentmethods and seen countless doctors in an effort to alleviate the sufferingat the hands of chronic pain.

The main leap of faith one has to make ifthis book is to be at all effective is that chronic pain is muscular innature.How we deal with this knowledge is the key to overcoming chronicpain's hold on us.This is not to say that chronic pain cannot be treatedby various medical procedures.Only that if pain persists for long periodsof time, a new approach may be needed.

In my own case, after five yearsof headaches, I finally was diagnosed with feraminal stenosis at C3-C4 andhad a dissection and fusion performed.In laymen's terms, two of my nervesroots were constricted where they exited the spine in my neck.Theoperation basically "cleaned up" the area surrounding the nervesroots.By doing this operation from the front of the neck, a disk issacrificed and a piece of bone implanted for fusion.

After thisoperation, I still struggled with very much the same pain as before, oncethe operative recuperation was complete.My neurosurgeon and I were quitesure that the operation had repaired the damage that had been causing mypain.My neurosurgeon was quick to note this did not necessarily mean thatthe pain would go away.I was told the pain may be eliminated totally,partially or not at all.Not what one wants to hear but, honestnonetheless.

I give my own history so that others with chronic pain mightat least listen to my review of the book and its methods.

Whether one hashad treatment of one sort or another to alleviate chronic pain or not, thisbook is worth a read.I would also recommend that you inform your doctorof this book.

This book attempts, I believe successfully, to have youtake control of your pain and life rather than the other way around.Theuse of medications is not dismissed altogether although it makes a strongcase on eventually eliminating painkilling medication along withtranquilizers.

I have found that while using the steps described in thebook do require dedication and some effort, it is much less than the energyused by letting chronic pain rule your life.

The book concentrates onthree facets of your life.The first is to slowly get the musclesthroughout your body moving to the point where some pain reduction occurswhich in turn can ease the transition to a life without painkillers andtranquilizers.

The second component of the book's program is where yourmind is used as a tool to help reduce chronic pain.This comes in the formof relaxation exercises and using your mind to focus on ways to preventchronic pain attacts from dominating your life.

The third component ofthe program is in the area of diet.In a nutshell, it asks that you eatsensibly and eliminate, at least for the short term, caffeine and alcoholfrom your diet.

I have taken the steps described in this book over thepast six months.I can honestly say that while I still suffer from somepain, the pain no longer rules my life.The steps I take daily to combatthe pain have allowed me to go back to work, although in a very differentfield.

In ending, I quote from page 197:"Many people go aroundhalf alive, caught in an emotional rut that they never try to analyze.Butchronic pain in a strange way, has forced introspection upon you.Pain,which laid you low, can actually be an opportunity to turn your lifearound, if you have the courage to look at what is botheringyou."

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This digital document is an article from SIECUS Report, published by Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S., Inc. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 504 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Young Men's Program: Long Island Crisis Center.(Examples from the Field: Culturally Competent Sexuality Education Programs)
Publication: SIECUS Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S., Inc.
Volume: 32Issue: 1Page: 23(1)

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Title: Retinal thinning may be a window on Parkinson's.(Clinical Rounds)(Clinical report)
Author: Betsy Bates
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 38Issue: 23Page: 43(1)

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on May 12, 2003. The length of the article is 875 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women targeted for child-care business fuming and training.(Family child-care providers get training, funds)
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 12, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 19Page: 7(1)

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