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This book stands out
for a number of good reasons. First, it has been
written by experts in
pain management, one a psychologist and the other
a physician, who
understand that chronic pain deeply affects both mind
and body. Second, it
is addressed directly to people who struggle with
chronic pain with a
nice combination of respect, humor, and honesty. The
authors never push
their own beliefs but, rather, they lay out the facts and
options for people to
make better-informed choices about medical treatments,
and they offer pearls
of wisdom for people who must cope with
chronic pain that
often lingers beyond treatment.
Jay R. Skidmore, PhD
Director, Graduate
Psychology
Seattle Pacific
University
In my opinion Validate
Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
gives the chronic pain
patient the necessary information and validation to
move forward. It is a
book that a doctor can recommend to his/her patients
that will answer their
questions and address their fears. It is a primer on
chronic pain, which is
meant to be read and marked up many times over.
It answers the patient’s
questions in a style and manner that the average
patient can understand.
As both a chronic pain patient and a support
group leader of over
seven years, I believe everyone who lives with chronic
pain should consider
this book their best friend.
Lois Davidson
jasperskid@netzero.net
Founder, Las Vegas
Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome Support
Group
Dr. Corinne Davis and
health psychologist Allan Chino are on a mission to
make chronic pain
understandable… Davis and Chino also believe people
with chronic pain can
benefit from a multidisciplinary medical intervention
that includes a
psychology aspect…The title comes from the authors’
conviction that
traditional medicine, managed health care and doubting
friends or family work
against the fact that chronic pain can be debilitating.
If that pain is not
acknowledged, a patient can lose self-esteem and
slide into depression,
which also has consequences for physical health.
Joan Whitely
Health Section, Las
Vegas Review Journal
Validate Your
Pain is an encyclopedia
of medical, rehabilitation, and
selfmanagement
approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain.
It lays a clear path for
gaining control of your pain and will provide you
with information
necessary to work effectively with health care professionals.
Drs. Chino and Davis are
to be commended for openly addressing
factors that interfere
with the proper treatment of pain and arming you
with the information
needed to protect yourself in the managed health
care jungle. Their
comprehensive approach to pain management is a must
read for people with
chronic pain as well as practitioners in the field.
Louis F. Damis,
Ph.D., ABPP,
Clinical Health
Psychologist
Florida Hospital
Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
I first saw the book, Validate
Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain
Cover-Up (VYP)
by Allan F. Chino, Ph.D. and Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. in
January of 2001 while
searching on-line [at amazon.com]. A few days
later, I looked through
it at a local Barnes and Noble Bookstore. Both as
a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
who lectures and publishes on pain
management and as a
person who experiences both chronic and acute
pain, when I found
myself nodding in agreement with most everything I
read, I knew I had to
buy this book! I read it cover-to-cover and it was
even better than I’d
initially expected.
It is easier in pharmacy
and other medical literature to find information
on medications used to
treat pain than it is to get a glimpse of the frustration
and suffering patients
with chronic pain so often feel. The title of
this book is excellent
and so appropriate; it validates a person’s pain and
helps empower them to
better achieve pain management, both on their
own and within the
traditional health care system.
Dr. Carol Dickson
McKee
rmckeeck@nycap.rr.com
Adjunct Associate
Professor,
Albany College of
Pharmacy, Albany NY
I have had chronic
headaches most of my life, but after my daughter was
born two years ago I had
pain in most areas of my body every day. I started
taking a lot of
Ibuprofen and ended up with an ulcer. It was very difficult
for me to share my pain
with my husband at first (he is a physician, and
I am a RN.) I didn’t
think he would want to listen to pain complaints after
hearing it all day at
work.
We have two wonderful
children ages 8 months, and 22 months. I had
been seeking help for my
pain from my ob/gyn, he seemed to think it was
all related to hormones
and pregnancy. I sought help from a few other
doctors who all
basically thought it was stress related, one even thought
I was a drug seeker.
This really upset me and kept me from seeking any
more help, meanwhile my
pain was getting worse by the day.
My husband was watching
all this and getting more frustrated, he asked
if I would see one more
doctor (a rhuematologist). I went and, to make a
long story short, I was
diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Being an ER nurse,
everything I had ever
heard about fibromyalgia was "it’s
all in the patients
head."
After my shock wore off
I started reading everything I could about
Fibromyalgia. I had
almost all the symptoms pain, sleeping problems, bowel
problems, headaches, and
more. The doctor I was seeing put me on Ultram,
Vioxx, and Prozac. These
medications helped some but not enough for me
to really be able to
function, I was at the point that I couldn’t take care
of kids without help.
When I expressed this to
my doctor he said I needed to leave my baby and
the one year old in the
front room alone so I could go to my room and
shut the door to rest,
He also told me that he didn’t give narcotics for
fibromyalgia and that I
needed to learn to live with this pain. This "treatment
plan" for rest was
unrealistic and the plan for pain wasn’t working
for me. Plus, I was
feeling worse every day.
It was at this
time that I bought a copy of Validate Your
Pain! by Drs.
Chino and Davis. This
book changed my life! After reading the book, I had
a heart to heart talk
with my physician husband and he found a wonderful
pain specialist for me
to see. Now that we have found the right medications
I am a new person. I
play with my kids, shop, and go on "dates" with
my husband. These are
the things I longed to do before but I never could
because of the pain.
I honestly think my
experiences with chronic pain have helped me grow
as a person, and my
husband has taken a new interest in pain management.
Having to watch me deal
with the pain has really opened his eyes
to the under-treatment
of pain in our society.
Anonymous
Posted on
www.validateyourpain.com website
The information in
"Validate Your Pain!" is
a must for anyone dealing with
chronic pain. It is user
friendly and contains essential information for
those dealing with the
multiple tiers of chronic pain.
Carol Misrack
Pain Management
Coordinator,
State of Oregon
Educational as
well as thought provoking, "Validate
Your Pain!" offers a
sympathetic guide
through the health care maze as well as personal pain
management strategies
for those who suffer from chronic pain. It should
be required reading for
all those involved in our health care delivery system.
David Murphy, M.D.,
Medical Director,
Pain Center
Progressive
Rehabilitation Associates
Roll over, HMOs! Chronic
pain sufferers will find themselves validated, and
vindicated, in these
pages. In the voices of Drs. Chino and Davis, we hear
a fresh integration of
psychology, medicine and spirituality. Validate
Your
Pain! is
a remarkable testament to their efforts, a book that offers downto-
earth advice and
suggestions laced with humor, hard science and integrity.
Any chronic pain patient
who is faced with the daunting prospect of
approaching a
"mangled-care" monolith should be armed with this text. I
highly recommend it to
anyone who would like a bird’s eye view of emerging
trends in health care.
Charles Deitz, Ph.D.
Clinical
Psychologist
Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine |
