Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than six months and can't be cured, but can be treated and managed. The pain can range from mild to excruciating and can be either episodic or continuous. According to WebMD, approximately 100 million Americans alone suffer from chronic pain; imagine the numbers worldwide! Chronic pain can affect anyone at any age, for example, if you have a sports injury at a young age, the pain can sometimes follow you throughout life or you are 60 and diagnosed with arthritis ... the stage I'm now at in my life having been diagnosed with osteoarthritis five years ago. Often early injuries, present injuries, or other reasons end up causing chronic pain. Some people have certain genetic codes predispose them towards having chronic pain. There are several conditions that cause chronic pain such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, migraines, and others. You can also have an injury when you are younger and have chronic pain stemming from it but starting later on in life. Chronic pain can be a result of repetition in body movement from a job and sometimes, people simply suffer from chronic pain syndrome whose cause cannot be identified. Regardless, it can have a mind of its own, flaring up for no apparent reason with science still not fully understanding why. So the best treatment is to try and manage it. While many try medications, sometimes their side effects are worse that the pain they are trying to manage. Others go for a more holistic method of treatment like deep breathing. It is cheaper, can be done anytime, doesn't have harmful side effects, and in some cases can be just as effective. In this book we explore how deep breathing can reduce the effects of chronic pain along with the other health benefits of deep breathing.
About the Author: I grew up in Central Minnesota, where my parents owned and operated a fishing resort. Once out of high school I tried a couple of semesters of college, only to quit halfway through the Spring term; I decided at that time that college wasn't for me. Then I decided to follow my father's previous occupation as an auto mechanic. I graduated from a two-year of vocational training course and worked as a mechanic. While in vocational training, I decided to join the National Guard where I eventually ended up working full-time for 32 years. So how does all of this relate to writing? In one of my leadership schools, the instructor, who was an English teacher at a juvenile detention center, presented writing to me in a whole new way - a way that started to develop my interest in working with words. Fast forward about 40 years and I now have over 50 books listed on Amazon for Kindle and CreateSpace. Besides my own writing, I also ghostwrite ebooks, reports, articles, blogs and do Kindle conversions for my clients on a variety of topics. Today my wife and I live in Gold Canyon, AZ, where you'll find me happily sitting in my office typing away on my laptop as I work on my next book or ghostwriting project . . . that is if we are not traveling on a cruise ship - our new-found mode of travel.