1. Edition - March 2010
162.- Euro
2010. 464 Pages, Hardcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-5291-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5291-4 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Pain management is a critical element of patient care, particularly in chronic disease. This genuinely evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in chronic illness provides the information on which to build more coherent and standardized strategies for pain relief. Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management seeks to answer the questions both about which are the most effective methods, and those which are not effective yet continue to be used. In taking this thorough approach, the book provides all clinicians managing patients with chronic pain with complementary focuses: a critically appraised review of the evidence, and a guide to using the evidence for optimum management of the individual patient.

From the contents
PART 1.

1 Why evidence matters (inlude discussion on hwo to use evidence for the best benefit of the patient).

2 Clinical trial design (include tools for measuring effectiveness, what should be the outcomes) Also, discuss rare complications that don't get into trials/or is this a separate chapter?.

3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence.

4 Neurobiology of pain (maybe move this chapter closer to the beginning?).

5 Pain and suffering in context.

6 Psychology of pain.

PART 2.

7 Spinal pain.

8 Low back pain (Pain related to lumbar spondylosis, Post-surgical back pain, Lumbar radiculopathy).

9 Neck pain (cervical spondylosis, Cervical radiculopathy, Whiplash).

10 Pain associated with Osteoarthritis.

11 Pain associated with Rheumatoid arthritis.

12 Muscular pain (Fibromyalgia, Myofscial pain syndrome, Pain associated with chronic fatigue).

13 Facial pain (Trigeminal neuralgia, Atypical facial pain, TMJ dysfunction).

14 Pelvic and perineal pain (Perineal pain in females, Perineal pain in males).

15 Pain from abdominal viscera.

16 Post-surgical pain syndromes.

17 Neuropathic and central pain syndromes (Postherpetic neuralgia (?acute zoster pain in same chapter), Painful diabetic polyneuropathy, Phantom limb pain, CRPS I and II, Central pain syndromes, Pain associated with spinal cord injury, Pain following stroke, Pain associated with multiple sclerosis).

18 Headache.

19 Chest pain syndromes.

20 Cancer Pain.

PART 3.

This will consist of very short descriptions + good lists of references for the most relevant treatment modalities