Still Hurting? FIND HEALTH! Discover What's Behind Your SYMPTOMS (That Doctors Can't Explain)

by William B. Salt II, M.D., Thomas L. Hudson, M.Div., J.D., William B. Salt II, M.D. (Illustrator)

Overview

Are you still hurting with symptoms that your doctors can't explain?

Do you have chronic pain all over your body, anxiousness, fatigue, or stomachaches associated with bowel problems that won't go away? Has a medical specialist diagnosed collections of your "medically unexplained symptoms" as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and/or irritable bowel syndrome? (Doctors call these labels, "functional somatic syndromes" or "central sensitivity syndromes," with central referring to mind/brain.) Have you left doctors' offices feeling like they think the symptoms are "all in your head?"

If so, you are not alone. Everyone is symptomatic from time to time, and many hurt chronically. One in every two primary care patients suffers from symptoms the doctors cannot explain. Nevertheless, they are real, not imagined, not "all in the mind." In fact, you are part of a worldwide epidemic of medically unexplained symptoms, which leave sufferers and their caregivers—physicians, psychologists, spiritual counselors, and alternative healers—frustrated, fragmented, and confused.

No one sees the bigger picture regarding the symptoms epidemic of which you are a part because no one is asking the right questions regarding your health. Everyone's vision is blurred by the narrow focus of their discipline, specialty, training, and insight. So you still hurt.

But you can learn to ask the right questions to get the right answers about your health. For example,

"What's behind your symptoms?"

"What if you could see clearly what's there?"

"What if you could discover how your symptoms happen and why you still hurt?"

"What if you could discover what YOU can do about your symptoms by taking charge of your own health?"

Still Hurting? FIND HEALTH! provides and empowers you with the means to self-discovery about your symptoms, how and why they are generated, and how you can uncover what's behind them in order to find health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982961223
Publisher:	Parkview Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/13/2011
Series:	Still Hurting? FIND HEALTH! , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

William B. Salt II, M.D. is board-certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology. He received his M.D. degree from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1972 and trained in internal medicine (including service as Chief Resient) and gastroenterology at Vanderbilt University Hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee. He practiced gastroenterology in Columbus until 2009.

His awards and honors include:

Mount Carmel Hospitals (Columbus) 2009 Physician of the Year
Dr. Judah Folkman Scientist in Residence at his alma mater, Bexley High School (Columbus) in 2003
Distinguished Educator of the Year 2000 by The Ohio State University
Mount Carmel Family Practice Residency Teacher of the Year, 1995-1996
Mount Carmel Teacher of the Year in Medicine, 1978-1979
Regular inclusion in Best Doctors in America®

While he has written numerous medical journal articles and book chapters for physicians, Dr. Salt is dedicated to helping patients suffering and still hurting with "medically unexplained symptoms" (MUS) that cannot be explained by medical tests. Collections of these mysterious and frustrating symptoms into symptom syndromes are labeled by medical specialists as "functional somatic syndromes" and "central sensitivity syndromes," such as irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia. His new book is his fourth on this problem, written with his lifelong friend, Tom Hudson following six years of collaboration.

The book website is: stillhurtingfindhealth.com.

Reverend Thomas L. Hudson is a 1973 honors graduate of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He also holds a J.D. degree from Capital University Law School where he graduated “magna cum laude.”

With a passion for both the law and ministry, he has interacted with thousands of needful people. For twenty-five years, he served churches across the spectrum of geography, culture, and ethnicity. He began his ministry in Clovis, New Mexico. Trained there as a volunteer police chaplain, he was on call twenty-four hours a day. The 3:00 a.m. emergency phone calls shaped his ministry and honed his empathy for those who were broken and lived on the edge.

He later served in New Orleans and Columbus, his home town. Always community focused, he has been a crisis intervention counselor, guest lecturer, and board chair for both the Franklin County Child Abuse and Child Neglect Advisory Board and Lutheran Social Services o