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Back in Control–A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain

Table of Contents

Section One—Overview of Chronic Pain

Overview of the DOCC project

Introduction

Chapter 1—The Path to Chronic Pain

Chapter 2—Reversing the Chronic Pain Process

Section Two—Calming the Nervous System

Chapter 3—Overview of Stress Management

Chapter 4—Anxiety

Chapter 5—Anger/Victim

Chapter 6—The Anxiety/Anger Duo–”The Highway to Hell”

Chapter 7—Reprogramming Your Nervous System

Chapter 8—Awareness

Chapter 9—Stress Management—The Homework

Chapter 10—Rehabilitation

Section Three—Surgery

Chapter 11—Spine Surgery—State of the Union

Chapter 12—Indications for Surgery

Chapter 13—Structural versus Non-Structural Problems

Chapter 14—What is Actually Going On in Surgery

Chapter 15—“I Want to Believe”

The insights are posted based on the Table of Contents and by the outline of the condensed version of “Back in Control”.

  • Illustrative stories will be linked to the insights
  • Videos will also be linked to the insights

Using DOCC:

Phase I  ”off of the ground”

Phase II  ”on your feet”

Phase III “out of the abyss”

Phase IV “taking back your life”

Phase V “blue sky”

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