Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up [Paperback]

Allan F. Chino PhD (Author), Corinne Dille Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002

Chronic pain is the number one complaint heard by physicians across our nation. From low back to the pain of cancer, from the highly publicized fibromyalgia to chronic fatique syndrome, and from the common headache to bursitis...pain is something all Americans can relate to. However, in the highly regulated world of healthcare, are American's getting their collective monies worth of attention and care for their pain complaints. The authors feel the answer is generally, "NO." How many of us have said, "Nobody takes my pain seriously," or "They say I shouldn't be hurting and that it's all in my head." How often are patients sent off to see psychologists or psychiatrists when physicians hit the wall and are unable to treat a patient's pain? What the authors want you to know is that there is a dirty little secret inside the healthcare system that, through ignorance, arrogance, and greed, perpetrates tremendous injustice upon individuals suffering with chronic pain. And, like the dirtly little secret, some doctors and insurance companies work hard to sweep patients with chornic pain under the rug. The problem has nothing to do with the latest approaches to diagnosis and treatment. It has nothing to do with discovering a way to ease human suffering and restore quality of life. Modern medicine already knows how to do that. Rather it has to do with something far more basic: compassion and the true desire to help. There are forces at work which, under the guise of healthcare, actively undermine efforts to help people with pain. Validate Your Pain exposes those secrets and arms the reader with information needed to maneuver through the healthcare minefields -- so they can get the help they deserve.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...Validate Your Pain...is a book that a doctor can recommend that will answer questions and address fears." -- Lois Davidson, Founder, Las Vagas Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group

"...an encyclopedia of medical, rehabilitation and self-management approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain." -- Louis F. Damis, Ph.D., ABPP, Clinical Health Psychologist, Florida Hospital Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

"...with Drs. Chino and Davis we will move forward in dealing with the [many] aspects of pain management and treatment." -- Carol Misrack, Pain Management Coordinator, State of Oregon

About the Author

Allan Chino, Ph.D. is board certified in Clinical Health Psychology and is president of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. He conducts biobehavioral research in fibromyalgia and practices pain management in Oregon. He has set up and directed two CARF-accredited hospital-based pain rehab programs in California and a private practice in Las Vegas. Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. is board certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehab, and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She practices in Las Vegas and Minnesota. In addition, she serves on the Prescription Controlled Substance Abuse Task Force for Nevada.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 381 pages
• Publisher: DC Press; 1 edition (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970844492
• ISBN-13: 978-0970844491
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,829,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you suffer from Chronic Pain this is YOUR Book!, March 10, 2000

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David Noll (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up (Paperback)

Before reading this book I can honestly say I was lost.. Lost in a maze of Doctors, lost in a drudgery of medicine, lost in the hope for a better life. This book has touched my life in so many ways, giving me clear answers to nearly all my medical questions, providing me with a roadmap through the prescription maze, arming me with information and showing me that there is hope. This books lighthearted and comical diction makes it the first real medical book that Ive actually enjoyed reading, and laughed out loud along the way. Anyone that suffers from Chronic pain, I urge to read Validate Your Pain and equip yourself with a powerful tool.

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Validate Your Pain-Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up, December 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up (Paperback)

Run, limp, order it online- but DEFINTELY obtain this book ASAP if you are a pain survivor, work with pain patients or if a loved one suffers from chronic pain. This book is outstanding and sincere. I use it as an invaluable resource and I use it for emotional support. The approach is right-on-target and empowering. The utter contempt pain patients face on a daily basis from the medical community, indifferent (sometimes frustrated) and ignorant doctors and nurses, acquaintances, friends and family is appalling and barbaric.
I was recently referred to a pain clinic associated with a respected university and I went relunctantly. The two doctors I encountered were utter clowns. I knew more about neurology and medicines applicable to my situation than they did- which is terrifying. To think that people, in the most horrific of pain have no choice but to turn to these "Keystone doctors" when they are in the most desperate of situations is truly of nightmarish implications. As anesthesiologists they were already discussing "shots" before I even gave them my pain history. The doctor who took the history "zoned-out" in the middle while I related my history. I did not fit neatly into any of his boxes. As a teacher it is my job to know when someone is not paying attention. I had to resist the urge to tell him "to sit up straight and pay attention". Nor was he even following what I was saying (that is also my job to determine if a listener understands.They could not diagnose me, recognized I was bright and well-informed, and was not going to stand for any of their nonsense. They could not get me out of there fast enough and kept looking for one feeble excuse after another. Six years of unrelenting, daily pain that never goes away, is getting worse and they said I was doing "just fine". I was butchered by a endodontist who is still out there "practicing".I can barely hold down a job. The most mundane task is a major event. They couldn't wait to get me out of there which was fine with me. I am certain they could not even pass a basic logic class.
This book explains a myriad of procedures and covers countless medications. Drs. David and Chino brought to my attention a medication that is actually helping me. I have scoured the Internet in search of help but their book is packed with information I may never have found. The information is compassionate and up-to-date.
My only regret is that I live in the Midwest and cannot further benefit from the expertise and empathy of these forthright, pragmatic pain specialists.
But I cannot thank them enough.
BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doctors & their brutal refusal to treat pain stands revealed., May 9, 2007

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N. Knopf - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up (Paperback)

I suffer from debilitating "nonspecific" chronic headaches. Doctors have spent four years trying, and failing, to slap a label (diagnoses) on this pain. Because it is diagnosed as nonspecific, most physicians refuse to provide me with a specific, nonnarcotic pain medication that time and experience has proven extremely effective on a regular basis. because my headaches currently remain undiagnosed, my chronic and extreme pain is regarded as suspect. The reality of actual severe pain is dismissed by doctors as imagined, psychosomatic, hyperchondrial, or "drug-seeking behavior" on my part. For the most part, for over ten years, I have not received proper, adequate or humane treatment for actual, real and terrible pain. This book has given me the key to solving this critical state of medical affairs when it comes to negligent or non-existant pain treatment that is crucial and required by myself and countless others who suffer needlessly. A concise, witty, inteligent and most importantly, an invaluable book on the subject is available. This is that book. My highest recommendation.