Robert Heaton

Software Engineer /
One-track lover / Down a two-way lane

Pain Appendix

This is the appendix to the post "Pain"

The Appendix

Treatments

Good
  • CBT
  • Meditation
  • Tai Chi
  • Feldenkrais
Medium
  • Pilates
  • Open Focus
  • Osteopathy
  • Alexander Technique
  • NLP
  • Physiotherapy (5 different)
  • Sports massage
Ineffective
  • Acupuncture
  • Kinesthesiology
  • Cranial osteopathy
  • Hypnosis
  • Can’t remember the name, but it was much closer to homeopathy than I would like to admit
  • Podiatry

Drugs (all ineffective for me)

  • Steroids (I forget what kind or why)
  • Gabapentin
  • Pregabalin
  • NSAIDs
  • Codine
  • Aspirin
  • Ibuprofen
  • Ibuprofen gel

Tests (that I can remember)

  • MRI scan x 1,000,000
  • Chest X-ray
  • Blood tests for everything in the world x 10,000,000
  • Leg biopsy (super, super, super painful)
  • Gait analysis
  • And many more

Very Selected People

Books

  • Explain Pain by Lorimer Mosely
  • Teach Us To Sit Still by Tim Parks
  • Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall
  • Coping Successfully With Pain by Neville Shone
  • Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Getting Things Done
  • Power of Full Engagement
  • How to make friends and influence people
  • How to stop worrying and start living
  • Uncertainty
  • The Happiness Trap
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • True and False
  • Walden

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