Evidence–Based Chronic Pain Management

A genuine evidence–based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditionsContributes 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

Spis treści:
About the Contributors.
Preface.
Section I: Understanding chronic pain and evidence.
1. Why evidence matters.
2. Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments.
3. Introduction to evaluation of evidence.
4. Neurobiology of pain.
5. Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote.
6. Psychology of pain.
Section II: Chronic pain syndromes.
7. Low back pain.
8. Neck pain.
9. Pain associated with osteoarthritis.
10. Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
11. Fibromyalgia.
12. Facial pain.
13. Chronic pelvic and perineal pain in women.
14. Pelvic and perineal pain in males.
15. Pain from abdominal viscera.
16. Post–surgical pain syndromes.
17. Painful diabetic neuropathy.
18. Phantom limb pain.
19. Complex regional pain syndrome.
20. Central pain syndromes.
21. Headache.
22. Chest pain syndromes.
Section III: Cancer pain management.
23. Oncological treatments for cancer pain.
24. Analgesics and co–analgesics in cancer pain.
25. TENS and acupuncture for cancer pain.
26. Psychological interventions for cancer pain.
Section IV: Chronic pain therapies.
27. Interventional therapies.
28. Rehabilitative treat ment for chronic pain

Nota biograficzna:
Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK
Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA