Ending Female Pain: A Woman’s Manuel

Ending Female Pain: A Woman’s Manuel (2009)

Isa Herrera
A ground breaking book for women with pelvic and sexual pain, this book contains dozens of easy, helpful exercises and tips that offers hope for patients with pelvic floor problems, vulvodynia, IC, etc. etc. This book gives you vital, easy and effective stretches, exercises and tips to help you take control and manage your pelvic pain symptoms.

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The Happy Bladder Cookbook E-Book

The Happy Bladder Cookbook E-Book

IC Patient Mia Elliot
Mia Ellliot is an IC patient who saw a void and filled it beautifully! Many people are beginning to use e-readers, smart phones and even their computers to read their books, and the cookbook market is no different. The book is searchable with a Table of Contents that allows you to click right now the recipe and view it. You can even download a sample and browse a couple of pages before you make the decision to buy it.

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Interstitial Cystitis

Interstitial Cystitis

Grannum R. Sant, MD (ed.)
Do you really want to understand IC? Written and edited by many of the leading experts on IC, this is the ultimate reference for interstitial cystitis patients, physicians, and other clinicians who work with IC patients. Book includes in-depth introductory information on IC, research studies, diagnostic information, and treatment options, including pain management.

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Bladder Disorder: Interstitial Cystitis

Bladder Disorder: Interstitial Cystitis (DVD, 2005)

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
A great way to explain interstitial cystitis to the new patient or their family. DVD showcases interviews with dozens of major players in the interstitial cystitis community including Dr. Robert Moldwin. Dr. Christopher Payne, Julie Beyer, Jill Osborne, and more. This DVD also interviews several IC patients, illustrating the challenges faced by people with interstitial cystitis.

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Please Understand

Please Understand (2007)

Sandler, Glidden
This new and unique book is both sensitive and empowering and will touch the hearts of so many IC sufferers and their loved ones. Please Understand is filled with information to help couples achieve and maintain successful and loving relationships. Not only is this book a great resource for patients and partners, but also for families and friends who are trying to understand the difficult struggles IC couples face. PLEASE UNDERSTAND legitimizes these struggles and offers realistic solutions to deal with them.

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A Headache in the Pelvis, 5th Ed

A Headache in the Pelvis, 5th Ed (2008)

David Wise, PhD
This book is for people with chronic pelvic pain syndromes (including prostatitis & interstitial cystitis). Developed at Stanford University Medical Center Department of Urology, it includes self treatment methods, a discussion of Paradoxical Relaxation, a section on the pro-inflammatory nature of anxiety, and an update of current research.

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The Mindfulness Solution to Pain

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain (2009)

Jackie Gardner-Nix
Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: “your biography influences your biology.” This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind’s power to quiet your pain and put you in control.

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Molecules of Emotion

Molecules of Emotion (1999)

Candace Pert, PhD
There is a science to feeling good! Although we have fought the idea that IC and related diseases are all in someone's head, we do know that stressful situations can really hurt our bodies. The good news is that positive experiences and positive emotions can reduce pain and even lead to healing in our bodies.

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Psychosomatic Wellness (AudioBook)

Psychosomatic Wellness (AudioBook) (2008)

Candace Pert, PhD
If our bodies are in a state of constant vibration, can the right music "tune" our cells to good health? Dr. Candace Pert's research has revealed that it can. Pert combines her scientific brilliance and spiritual intuition to create Psychosomatic Wellness--music and meditations for relaxation, rejuvenation, and personal healing.

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Guided Imagery for Women with Pelvic Pain or Interstitial Cystitis

Guided Imagery for Women with Pelvic Pain or Interstitial Cystitis

This CD was created by a Nurse Practitioner working with women with IC and pelvic pain at William Beaumont Hospital (Michigan), one of the premiere IC research & clinical care centers in the USA today. The imagery on the CD is specific for pain, frequency and urgency symptoms. In a research study using this CD, more than 45% of the group using this CD twice a day was moderately or markedly improved, and pain scores and urgency significantly decreased in this group.

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