Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

by Editor: Cathy Stannard (Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK); Editor: Eija Kalso (University of Helsinki, Finland); Editor: Jane Ballantyne (Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA ; )

• ISBN13: 9781444314397
• ISBN10: 1444314394
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: BMJ Books

Summary

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Table of Contents

About the Contributors

Preface

Understanding chronic pain and evidence

Why evidence matters

Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments

Introduction to evaluation of evidence

Neurobiology of pain

Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote

Psychology of pain

Chronic pain syndromes

Low back pain

Neck pain

Pain associated with osteoarthritis

Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Fibromyalgia

Facial pain

Chronic pelvic and perineal pain in women

Pelvic and perineal pain in males

Pain from abdominal viscera

Post-surgical pain syndromes

Painful diabetic neuropathy

Phantom limb pain

Complex regional pain syndrome

Central pain syndromes

Headache

Chest pain syndromes

Cancer pain management

Oncological treatments for cancer pain

Analgesics and co-analgesics in cancer pain

TENS and acupuncture for cancer pain

Psychological interventions for cancer pain

Chronic pain therapies

Interventional therapies

Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain

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