Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management

✍ Scribed by Joseph F. Audette, Allison Bailey

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 578
• Series: Contemporary pain medicine
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This important book fills a need in the developing area of Pain Medicine. It provides physicians with an up-to-date resource that details the current understanding about the basic science underlying the mechanism of action of the various CAM therapies used for pain. It summarizes the clinical evidence both for efficacy and safety, and finishes with practical guidelines about how such treatments could be successfully and safely integrated into a Pain practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Integrative Pain Medicine......Page 1
Contents......Page 11
Introduction......Page 16
1. Legal and Ethical Issues in IntegrativePain Management......Page 17
Future Trends in CAM Research......Page 31
2. Basic Mechanisms of Pain......Page 32
3. The Functional Neuroanatomyof Pain Perception......Page 75
4. Neuroimaging for the Evaluationof CAM Mechanisms......Page 96
5. Integrating Dry Needling with New Concepts of Myofascial Pain, Muscle Physiology, and Sensitization......Page 118
6. Potential Role of Fascia in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain......Page 133
7. Biochemical and Nutritional Influences on Pain......Page 143
8. Exercise Testing and Training in Patients with (Chronic) Pain......Page 183
Therapeutic Techniques......Page 202
9. Meditation and Chronic Pain......Page 203
10. Adjunctive Hypnotic Management of Acute Pain in Invasive Medical Interventions......Page 218
11. Energy-Based Therapies for Chronic Pain......Page 232
12. Tai Chi in Pain Medicine......Page 249
13. Yoga in Pain Management......Page 265
15. Osteopathic Medicine in Chronic Pain......Page 313
14. Contemporary Aquatic Therapy and Pain Management......Page 291
16. Chiropractic Pain Management......Page 338
17. Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in Integrative Pain Management......Page 357
18. Acupuncture in Pain Management......Page 382
19. Nutrition and Supplements for Pain Management......Page 420
20. Botanicals in the Management of Pain......Page 449
21. Chinese Herbal Medicine for Pain......Page 473
Integrative Models......Page 496
22. Integrative Pain Medicine Models......Page 497
23. Integrative Medicine......Page 546
Index......Page 570