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
Websites