Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain

A pediatrician looks at the causes and repercussions of chronic pain in children and offers a multidisciplinary approach—incorporating such alternative methods as yoga, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and biofeedback, as well as relaxation techniques and medications—to help alleviate the problem. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Lonnie K. Zeltzer, M.D., is an internationally recognized authority on the psychobiology of pain in children. She is Director of the Paediatric Pain Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Medical Director of the Trinity Kid’s Care Paediatric Hospice. She is Professor of the Departments of Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Dr. Zeltzer helped develop the guidelines for the American Pain Society’s position papers on paediatric acute and chronic pain, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Expert Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. A sought-after conference speaker and winner of numerous awards, she was listed in Best Doctors in the West in the May 2002 issue of the Ladies Home Journal. She has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and more. She is the mother of 3 daughters. Christina Blackett Schlank is the author of Medicine and Money, a consumer-focused look at the managed care system today. She has 15 years of writing and editing experience for major publications and publishers, including Money magazine and Reader’s Digest Books, where she contributed to a comprehensive guide to alternative medical treatments, among other titles. She writes on healthcare issues for several insurance industry newsletters.