Insights: Facts and Stories Behind Trigeminal Neuralgia

by Joanna M. Zakrzewska and Joanna Zakrzewska

Book Overview

Understanding and treating what is often called the world's worst pain. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967239346
• ISBN13: 9780967239347
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (TNA)
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Treatment overview and summarized stories

For treatment information and patient experience overviews this is a very good book. If you are looking for one person's story of life with trigeminal neuralgia and the personal day to day struggles to overcome it I recommend Carol Jay Levy's A PAINED LIFE, a chronic pain journey, characterized by the American Chronic Pain Association as "hard to put down." and by Stephen Hall, A NY Times magazine writer, as "A fascinating story, honestly told and courageously lived."

This is a must-read for anyone with TN

This book provides a comprehensive summary on many options for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. I found it to be very useful in understanding the condition. Highly recommended!

Information, insight, facts, and feelings.

In one book, Dr. Zak has created a treasury of practical information for people with trigeminal neuralgia, neuropathic facial pain, and anesthesia dolorosa. From cover to cover, this book is full of practical hints about pain management and facts about diagnosis and causes of neuralgia, medications, surgical treatments and more. Recent statistics about surgical procedures are included. What I like most of all about Insights is that Dr. Zak presents psycho-social information about living with facial pain. Readers will find that they are not alone, but that they have much in common with other people who have facial pain. Truly insightful!