NACPAC - Reccommended Books

Links to Pain Resources serving both Americans and Canadians:

Reccommended Pain Books:
Livres recommandés de la douleur:
The following list of Pain literature will be updated periodically:

Pain Relief How to say No to Acute, Chronic and Cancer Pain! by Dr. Jane Cowles

Comments: intended for general audience, highly recommended.

Managing PAIN before it Manages You by Dr. Margaret Caudill

Comments: recommended chronic pain workbook for general audience and in use by NACPAC support groups. One may work through this book and share the results of some of the exercises with their family physician.
Note: this book is available to NACPAC members for $15.50 until June 30, 1997 by sending a written request plus payment to NACPAC Head Office. NACPAC is not making any profit at this price. Otherwise, the workbook can be ordered through your local bookstore. (There the cost will likely be $18.95 + US exchange & taxes.)

The Challenge of Pain, 3rd Edition by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall

Comments: geared towards medical audience and highly technical, this book presents landmark work in the field of Pain Research and Treatment by Professor Ronald Melzack and Professor Patrick Wall. This highly recommended book will still benefit the above-average reader in the general audience with the aid of medical reference books (e.g. see Link 'From: Classification of Chronic Pain' above and HealthGate's online medical dictionary above). Available in paperback.

Chronic Pain Volumes 1 & 2 by Thomas W. Miller

Comments: geared towards medical audience and highly technical. These books will still benefit the above-average reader in the general audience with the aid of medical reference books (e.g. see Link 'From: Classification of Chronic Pain' above and HealthGate's online medical dictionary above). Well indexed, with sections on specific pain information. Library usage recommended as these books are both expensive and difficult to order from bookstores.

MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN (#56) Bibliography compiled by: The Canadian Library of Family Medicine Comments: For Health Professionals.

Specialized Pain Books:
The following list of suggested literature will be updated periodically.

CHN Fibromyalgia Research and Information Library

The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Edited by Byron Hyde, M.D. Nightingale Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada Comment: Described as 'essential current reference book for researchers, physicians and other health education and government officials, and is easily understandable by the general public interested in M.E./CFS. All funds from this text will be used both to promote research and to assist in greater understanding of M.E./CFS'.

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain, A Survival Manual, Second Edition
by Devin Starlanyl and Mary Ellen Copeland

IBD - IBS Book Store Comment: 'resource to books on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's Disease & ulcerative colitis) and Irritable Bowel'. Syndrome (IBS).

Books on Neuropathies and Nerve Injury

Numb Toes and Aching Soles: Coping with Peripheral Neuropathy, Seneff, John A.,

Pain Imaging Progress in Pain Research and Management, Vol. 18 Editors: Kenneth L. Casey, MD and M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD

Online ordering of books on Alternative Treatments to Pain, Back Pain, Cancer Pain, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Migraine, Neuropathic Pain, Pain and Regional Anesthesia.Comment: NACPAC has not reviewed nor neccessarily recommends any of these books.

Recommended Pain Books from the from the Mining Co. Back and Neck Injury website

Book Reviews from ACPA

The Ultimate Back Book, Understanding, Manage, and Conquer Your Back Pain by Judylaine Fine

Inspirational and Self-help Books:
The following list of suggested literature will be updated periodically. Note that NACPAC does not endorse nor neccessarily recommends any of the following books.

Chicken Soup for the Soul series by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Florida
Comments: collection of inspiring, positive and uplifting true personal short stories.

Chronic Illness and the Family: A Guide to Living Every Day by Linda Welch, M.D. with Marian Betancourt
Adams Pub (paperback), 1996.

Full Catastrophe Living by Kabat-Zinn
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990.

Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor Frankl
Beacon Press Boston ISBN
Comments: inspiring and moving narrative of the authors horrific experience in a Nazis concentration camp and how people maintain their will to live despite the most horrifc situations and conditions.

Me and My Pain The Challenges of Chronic Pain by Abbey Strauss

Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness by Paul J. Donoghue & Mary E.
Siegel, Norton (paperback), 1994.

WE LAUGHED WE CRIED; Life with Fibromyalgia
Compiled & edited by Kit Gardiser & Kathleen Kerry
KMK Associates, PO Box 60246, Palo Alto, CA 94306

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner (Avon books)
Comments: available in paperback. Recommended reading during intial stage of 'why me?' when first diagnosed with a chronic illness.