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Chapter 22 - Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context
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Chapter 22 - Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context

Chris Hayes, Caroline West and Garry Egger
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.339-353
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017

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Abstract

Holistic medicine Opioids Plasticity Metaflammation Chronic pain
Chronic pain is a growing problem with little obvious explanation for its increasing prevalence. Traditional medical approaches including pain-killing medications have been largely unsuccessful and potentially counterproductive in stemming this growth over the long term. Hence, a more holistic approach incorporating aspects of lifestyle and psychology has begun to be used in pain clinics and primary care, with an expanding role for the lifestyle medicine practitioner.

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