Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain: A Paediatrician's Guide for Reclai ming a Normal Childhood

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A pediatrician looks at the causes and repercussions of chronic pain in children and offers a multidisciplinary approach--incorporating such alternative methods as yoga, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and biofeedback, as well as relaxation techniques and medications--to help alleviate the problem. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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"An important, compassionate book." -- Deepak Chopra

"Parents! If you hava child in pain, read this book. There is hope." -- James Campbell, M.D., Professor of Jeurological Surgery and Director, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Founder and President, American Pain Foundation

"An outstanding book for parents of children and adolescents with chronic pain. I recommend it highly." -- Charles Berde, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital, Boston; Professor of Anaesthesia and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"A valuable and important book that will be appreciated by every family struggling with a child in pain." -- Neil L. Schechter, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Director, Pain Relief Program, Connecticut Children's Medical Center

"Reassuring and informative. Parents will gain hope when they discover the many available treatment options." -- Kenneth R. Goldschneider, M.D., F.A.A.P., Director, Division of Pain Management, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

"I hope Dr. Zeltzer continues to do subjective research on yoga so that the young generation regains freedom from pain..." -- B.K.S. Iyengar

"A wonderful book! Dr. Zeltzer's approach is loving, respectful, upbeat, and best of all - successful." -- Laura Schanberg, M.D., Associate Professor, Pediatric Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center

"A must-read for any patient with chronic pain." -- Steven J. Weisman, M.D., Jane B. Pettit Chair in Pain Management, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin

"Now [Dr. Zeltzer's] wisdom is available to all." -- Patrick J. McGrath, O.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Canadian Institutes of Health Research Distinguished Scientist; Killam Professor of Psychology and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University

"This is an amazingly caring, competent, and useful book. It opens your mind but also your heart..." -- Vanna Axia, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Psychology, Child Neuro-psychiatry Specialization School, School of Medicine; Director

"All [Dr. Zeltzer's] work has resulted in real solutions for children and their parents." -- David Geffen

"One of the few [books] for laypeople on chronic pain in children." -- Washington Post

"Informative, practical, and well written." -- Pediatric Pain Letter

Author Bio

Lonnie K. Zeltzer, M.D., is an internationally recognized authority on the psychobiology of pain in children. She is Director of the Paediatric Pain Program at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Medical Director of the Trinity Kid's Care Paediatric Hospice. She is Professor of the Departments of Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Dr. Zeltzer helped develop the guidelines for the American Pain Society's position papers on paediatric acute and chronic pain, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute's Expert Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. A sought-after conference speaker and winner of numerous awards, she was listed in Best Doctors in the West in the May 2002 issue of the Ladies Home Journal. She has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and more. She is the mother of 3 daughters. Christina Blackett Schlank is the author of Medicine and Money, a consumer-focused look at the managed care system today. She has 15 years of writing and editing experience for major publications and publishers, including Money magazine and Reader's Digest Books, where she contributed to a comprehensive guide to alternative medical treatments, among other titles. She writes on healthcare issues for several insurance industry newsletters.