Whenever I see a patient whose sleep is severely impacted by pain, I have to find a balance between treating the cause of the problem, and providing a bit of relief to help with sleep. After reading Why We Sleep, I’m leaning more towards helping sleep before I try and tackle the original problem. We […]
Read More Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)If you’ve ever been to see your GP and felt like they haven’t got time for you (or you’ve had to wait weeks for an appointment), it’s because they haven’t. Far too many of us are ill with things we shouldn’t be- IBS, high blood pressure, and fatigue to name a few. We need to […]
Read More The Four Pillar Plan (Rangan Chatterjee)This has been another book that’s been good to have on hand in clinic. Many patients come to me while waiting for, or considering surgery. Ian Harris is an Australian orthopaedic surgeon, and it is his own area of expertise where he is most critical. Rightly so- it’s the one he’s most qualified to evaluate. […]
Read More Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo (Ian Harris)A patient recommended this book to me after the best week she’d had in months. She had chronic pain, and had hit rock bottom the week before. We spoke about the complex nature of chronic pain, and the conversation reminded her of this book. She’d benefited from applying its advice in the past, but remembered […]
Read More Conquer Your Chronic Pain (Peter Abaci)As antagonistic as the title sounds, I promise it is not meant condescendingly! Suzanne O’Sullivan is a consultant neurologist, and she opens the book with the expectations she held of her future work before specialising in neurology: “diseases of the brain and nerves and muscles”. The reality also involved “those whose illnesses originated not in […]
Read More It’s All In Your Head (Suzanne O’Sullivan)