Pain is all too common - around 2.6 million people in the UK visit their doctor each year with back pain alone, while recent research suggests that every day 90,000 people in the UK are away from work or education because of headache. The good news is that new techniques can help you beat pain, often in the privacy of your own home and with minimal equipment. Trigger point therapy, an important part of this book, is a leading new method of pain relief which has become highly popular in the US. Simple but effective, it can relieve pain from trigger points throughout the body - responsible for 80 per cent of common pain. Trigger point therapy can also relieve the pain associated with many chronic pain conditions, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. This book also looks at many other pain-beating therapies including acupuncture, aromatherapy, chiropractic, cognitive behavioural therapy, homeopathy, hypnosis, magnet therapy, osteopathy, relaxation and meditation, and TENS machine.