Meditation practice can lead to a variety of different pain syndromes, including both chronic pain and headaches. Pain syndromes are typically multifactorial, meaning they have many inputs physical/biological, psychological, and social -so treatments may also have many dimensions.
Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World
Kelly Starrett (2016)
First things first, sometimes meditation can cause body pain and headaches because of poor body posture and mechanics of sitting, especially of the back, neck and head.
Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases—from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression. The typical seated office worker suffers from more musculoskeletal injuries than those workers who do daily manual labor. It turns out that sitting is as much an occupational risk as is lifting heavy weights on the job. The facts are in: sitting literally shortens your life. Your chair is your enemy, and it is murdering your body.
Dr. Kelly Starrett—physical therapist and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Becoming a Supple Leopard—unveils a detailed battle plan for surviving our sitting-centric society. Deskbound provides creative solutions for reducing the amount of time you spend perched on your backside, as well as strategies for transforming your desk into a dynamic, active workstation that can improve your life.
You will learn how to:
Easily identify and fix toxic body positions
Erdicate back, neck, and shoulder pain
Mitigate carpel tunnel syndrome forever
Organize and stabilize your spine and trunk
Perform daily body maintenance work using 14 mobility templates for resolving pain and increasing range of motion
Managing Chronic Pain: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Workbook
by John Otis (2007)
Chronic pain has a multitude of causes, many of which are not well understood or effectively treated by medical therapies. Individuals with chronic pain often report that pain interferes with their ability to engage in occupational, social, or recreational activities. Sufferers' inability to engage in these everyday activities may contribute to increased isolation, negative mood and physical deconditioning, which in turn can contribute to their experience of pain.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been proven effective at managing various chronic pain conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, and tension/migraine headache. The CBT treatment engages patients in an active coping process aimed at changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that can serve to maintain and exacerbate the experience of chronic pain.
Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide
by Babette Rothschild (2011)
A leading trauma specialist presents the wide range of trauma treatments available and gives readers tools to choose a treatment plan or assess whether their treatment plan is working. Medications and associated conditions such as anxiety and panic disorders are also discussed. This book presents the most necessary and relevant information in a compact and accessible format, serving both as a review for therapists and a straightforward, easy-to-use guide for patients.
Principles of Trauma Therapy: A guide to symptoms, evaluation, and treatment (2nd ed., DSM-5 update).
Briere, J., & Scott, C. (2014).
Updated with DSM-5 content, this book reviews cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches to the "real world" treatment of acute and chronic posttraumatic states. Grounded in empirically-supported trauma treatment and adapted to the complexities of actual clinical practice.
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D. (2015)
Renowned trauma expert combines clinical observation, neuroscience, historical analysis, the arts, and personal narrative, into an authoritative guide to the effects of trauma, and pathways to recovery.
The Body Remembers Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment
by Babette Rothschild (2017)
Through monitoring and modulating a dysregulated nervous system, preventing dissociation, decompensation and retraumatization, this book teaches how to promote a basic level of safety that is the foundation for any trauma therapy. Superb.