Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief: How to Better Manage Pain and Regain Function (3rd Edition)

Written by Wesley P. Gilliam and Bruce Sutor, M.D.

Narrated by Leanne Woodward and Nano Nagle

This comprehensive guide to managing chronic pain includes practical, easy-to-understand information to help you become more active, productive, and comfortable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mayo Clinic Press
• Release date: Feb 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9781666654967

Wesley P. Gilliam

Wesley P. Gilliam, Ph.D., L.P., is a board-certified clinical health psychologist in Mayo Clinic's Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and an assistant professor of psychology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is the clinical director of Mayo Clinic's Adult Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Center program. His expertise is in treating chronic pain and his interests include health psychology and behavioral medicine and the effects of long-term opioid use for chronic pain. His areas of clinical research include biopsychosocial conceptualizations of chronic pain, the degree to which psychosocial factors influence acute and chronic pain intensity, underlying pathways by which psychosocial factors exert such effect, and the degree to which these factors predict response to chronic-pain treatment.