The path to chronic pain -- Reversing the chronic pain process -- Stress management -- Anxiety -- Anger/victimhood -- Anxiety-fueled anger, the highway to hell -- Reprogramming the nervous system -- Awareness -- Solving stress, the homework -- Excellent rehabilitation -- Do you really need surgery?

Seattle spinal surgeon Dr. David Hanscom focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that the medical world has largely overlooked: you must calm your nervous system in order to get better. More than any other book about pain, Back in Control reveals how to quiet a turbocharged central nervous system and make a full recovery, with or without surgery

Issued also as an ebook