Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 455
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Why Evidence Matters (pages 1–13): Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry
Chapter 2 Clinical Trial Design for Chronic Pain Treatments (pages 14–30): Alec B. O'Connor and Robert H. Dworkin
Chapter 3 Introduction to Evaluation of Evidence (pages 31–41): Eija Kalso
Chapter 4 Neurobiology of Pain (pages 42–51): Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson
Chapter 5 Intractable Pain and the Perception of Time: Every Patient is an Anecdote (pages 52–58): David B. Morris
Chapter 6 Psychology of Chronic Pain and Evidence?Based Psychological Interventions (pages 59–67): Christopher Eccleston
Chapter 7 Chronic Low Back Pain (pages 69–82): Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes
Chapter 8 Chronic Neck Pain and Whiplash (pages 83–96): Allan Binder
Chapter 9 Pain Associated with Osteo?Arthritis (pages 97–105): David L. Scott
Chapter 10 Pain Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis (pages 106–120): Paul Creamer and Sarah Love?Jones
Chapter 11 Fibromyalgia (pages 121–133): Winfried Hauser, Kati Thieme, Frank Petzke and Claudia Sommer
Chapter 12 Facial Pain (pages 134–150): Joanna M. Zakrzewska
Chapter 13 Pelvic and Perineal Pain in Women (pages 151–161): William Stones and Beverly Collett
Chapter 14 Perineal Pain in Males (pages 162–173): Andrew P. Baranowski
Chapter 15 Pain from Abdominal Organs (pages 174–193): Timothy J. Ness and L. Vandy Black
Chapter 16 Postsurgical Pain Syndromes (pages 194–203): Fred Perkins and Jane Ballantyne
Chapter 17 Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (pages 204–221): Christina Daousi and Turo J. Nurmikko
Chapter 18 Postherpetic Neuralgia (pages 222–236): Turo J. Nurmikko
Chapter 19 Phantom Limb Pain (pages 237–247): Lone Nikolajsen
Chapter 20 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (pages 248–266): Andreas Binder and Ralf Baron
Chapter 21 Central Pain Syndromes (pages 267–278): Kristina B. Svendsen, Nanna B. Finnerup, Henriette Klit and Troels Staehelin Jensen
Chapter 22 Headache (pages 279–291): Peer Tfelt?Hansen
Chapter 23 Chest Pain Syndromes (pages 292–307): Austin Leach and Michael Chester
Chapter 24 Oncologic Therapy in Cancer Pain (pages 309–326): Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto
Chapter 26 Psychologic Interventions for Cancer Pain (pages 337–347): Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy
Chapter 27 Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Acupuncture (pages 348–365): Mark I. Johnson
Chapter 25 Cancer Pain: Analgesics and Co?Analgesics (pages 327–336): Rae Frances Bell
Chapter 28 Interventional Therapies (pages 367–399): Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen
Chapter 29 Spinal Cord Stimulation for Refractory Angina (pages 400–406): Mats Borjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andrell and Bengt Linderoth
Chapter 30 Rehabilitative Treatment for Chronic Pain (pages 407–423): James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough and Michael Schatman
Chapter 31 Drug Treatment of Chronic Pain (pages 424–433): Henry McQuay
Chapter 32 Complementary Therapies for Pain Relief (pages 434–437): Edzard Ernst