Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Patient-Centered Approach

by Ashley; Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781857759471
• ISBN10: 1857759478
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Chronic Myofascial Pain demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this non-malignant pain. It addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the issues of care. It provides patient-centered perspectives as an approach to a better understanding of the symptoms of the condition, its origins, consequences and meanings for the patient, and its management. This book is an important resource for family doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, neurologists, rheumatologists, and rehabilitaion workers.

Table of Contents

Series editors' introduction
About the authors
Introduction
The magnitude of the problem	p. 1
The disease: chronic myofascial pain	p. 21
Muscle and pain physiology	p. 21
Prevailing multidimensional models for clinical understanding of chronic pain syndromes	p. 33
Clinical and laboratory examination	p. 42
The illness experience	p. 51
Communicating illness experience	p. 52
Women in pain: the meaning of symptoms and illness	p. 58
Understanding the whole person	p. 71
Family, work, health and rehabilitation for women in pain	p. 72
A painful life: between multiple layers of oppression	p. 85
The patient-clinician relationship	p. 103
Difficult patient or difficult relationships: when things go wrong	p. 104
Empowering the patient by reframing the discourse	p. 116
Management of chronic myofascial pain: finding common ground	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
Medication and injections	p. 138
Modifying the frame of patient-physician interaction, exemplified by writing an illness diary	p. 144
Cross-disciplinary approaches and physiotherapy	p. 149
From individual treatment to learning in groups: a group-learning program as an example of occupational rehabilitation approaches	p. 157
Acupuncture and myofascial pain: move it all over again	p. 164
The art of living with pain: recovery through acknowledgment	p. 167
The challenges of chronic myofascial pain: commitment to patient perspectives	p. 175
Index	p. 181
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