COMPLETE GUIDE TO PAIN RELIEF: Hundreds of New and Time-Honored Techniques to Help You Master Pain The Editors of Reader's Digest

In the modern world, countless hours are lost from work and leisure each year due to pain. The editors of Reader's Digest come to the rescue with this guide. Opening with a discussion of pain in general, the book is thereafter organized by parts of the body (including chapters on systemic pain and emotional pain of many sorts). Each chapter covers various diseases and conditions. For each condition the authors provide a description, an indication of who is at risk, how it develops, how to prevent it, how to treat it, possible alternative therapies and warnings and breakthroughs. Produced in full-color, 500 photographs, diagrams, charts, a directory of resources and an index illustrate and explain the text. (Jan.)