Chronic or Persistent Pain Chronic and persistent pain are both medical terms, and they essentially mean the same thing. When I started my career, chronic pain was the term that was most commonly used by clinicians to describe pain that went on for a long period of time. More recently,…
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Chronic Pain and Depression
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden.C. S. Lewis A book on pain management would not be complete without a chapter on mood management. Most of my patients have told…
Fibromyalgia Pain Management
The Homemaker Let’s use Michelle’s experience as an example. Since she developed her pain, some of Michelle’s rules had become very problematic for her – they no longer added value to her life. Michelle had a rule that her home must be clean and tidy at all times. She also…
The UFO Club – London 1966
An excerpt from Chapter 9 - Darlings of the Psychedelic Underground - from Thinking About Tomorrow – Excerpts from the life of Keith West While Tomorrow would eventually hitch themselves firmly to the counter-culture and psychedelic bandwagon, it’s important to recognise that, as 1966 came to an end, this was…
Liverpool versus Manchester United – FA Cup Final 1996
Chapter 13 from Champions Again: The Story of Liverpool’s 30-Year Wait for the Title by Ian Carroll On the 11th of May, 1996, Liverpool travelled to Wembley to face Man Utd in the FA Cup final. I was there. I travelled down to London with my mate Hero in the…
Green Living and Wellness
An excerpt from Chapter 3 of Spend Green and Save The World by Liz Christou Overconsumption Unless you’re a bit of a hoarder, you can probably look around your home and find many pointless possessions that you’ve bought or been given. If you can’t see them, then I’d bet money…
Keith West and Excerpt From a Teenage Opera
“What I take the influence back to, was Excerpt from a Teenage Opera, a record in the late 60s, by Keith West that was episodic. That was really the one that was the biggest influence, and then lots of people started doing it. I think it was just that one…
Keith West – Lead Singer of Tomorrow – where is he now?
Keith West is the legendary lead singer, songwriter and front man of several ground-breaking bands, including the 60s seminal band Tomorrow. Indeed, Tomorrow and Keith West were at the forefront of the psychedelic rock movement, along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. After the demise of Tomorrow, Keith went on…
50 Years of Hard Road – The End of the Beginning
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. ‘The trouble with dying is it’s so bloody final!’ I was lying flat on my back across a railway track, a hundred yards up from my local railway station with my head on the line,…
A Pub On Each Corner – Errata Page
No errata at present.