A reference for the doctor confronted with patients complaining of headache. It explains the headache epidemiology, impact, and pathogenesis, and walks the reader through the steps to evaluating and treating the patient presenting with primary or secondary headache disorders. It also included reviews of common headache comorbidities.
Pain is an emotion experienced in the brain, it is not like touch, taste, sight, smell or hearing. It is categorised into Acute Pain less than twelve weeks duration and Chronic Pain if over twelve weeks. This book examines research into the causes, symptoms and treatments of pain.
Using the low back pain guidelines from the American Pain Society (APS) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) as a key reference, this title explains: types of low back pain; causes and risk factors; signs and symptoms; treatment and management; and, prevention techniques.
Using the low back pain guidelines from the American Pain Society (APS) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) as a key reference, this title explains: types of low back pain; causes and risk factors; signs and symptoms; treatment and management; and, prevention techniques.
This is a revised and expanded edition with three new chapters and a new preface summarizing the progress in the area of pain management. In addition, the argument will appeal to psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the nature of pain and suffering.
Presents guidance on a range of discogenic pain relief techniques. This title offers advice on a variety of procedures to manage and treat discogenic pain. It provides comprehensive coverage on selecting and performing these techniques - as well as weighing relative risks and complications - that helps you ensure optimum outcomes.
Authored by an expert on muscle and movement imbalances, this illustrated book presents a classification system of mechanical pain syndromes that is designed to direct the exercise prescription and the correction of faulty movement patterns. It describes the diagnostic categories, associated muscle and movement imbalances, and more.
Neuroimaging techniques provided a better insight into mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. This book discusses how brain stimulation techniques aim to selectively enhance adaptive patterns of neural activity, suppress the maladaptive ones, and restore the balance in disturbed neuronal networks.
Psychology has made an enormous contribution to the understanding of pain and its phenomena, mechanisms, and treatments. This book explores and integrates research in key areas of pain and pain management from a psychological perspective, and places developments in an historical context.
Having cancer doesn't mean that you'll have pain. But if you do, you can manage most of your pain with medicine and other treatments. This book shows you how to work with your doctors and others to find the best way to control your pain. It discusses causes of pain, medicines, how to talk to your doctor, and other topics that may help you.
Presents guidance on the full range of neuromodulation techniques. This title offers advice on a variety of spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and peripheral nerve field stimulation procedures to treat chronic pain. It provides comprehensive coverage on selecting and performing these techniques, as well as weighing relative risks and complications.
Presents guidance on when and why spinal injections and peripheral nerve block procedures should be performed, the mechanisms of action on pain, and guidelines for practice. This title offers advice and scientific evidence supporting the use of spinal injections and sympathetic nerve blocks.
Intends to promote and enable closer co-operation between different health professionals in treating pain, by introducing psychosocially oriented team members to the medical aspects of pain, and medically oriented team members to the psychosocial aspects.
Focusing on a particular theme in pediatric pain, this title integrates science and clinical practice on various themes in pediatric pain through the presentation and discussion of a series of clinical cases. Each chapter consists of an introduction to the chapter theme and the description of up to 3 case presentations.
Intended for pain medicine and anesthesiology exams - or as a clinical consult on the major presentations and interventions in pain. This book covers topics which include physiology, patient assessment, therapeutics and interventional therapies, chronic and acute pain, disability, special techniques, and more.
Includes two-color page layout and a list of the 'Top 100 Secrets' in pain management that help you better meet the challenges you face. This title also helps to find the features you rely on from the "Secrets Series[registered]" - a question-and-answer format, lists, mnemonics, tables and an informal tone - that make reference fast and easy.
Pain is a response of the body to the action of injuring stimuli. Notwithstanding an unpleasant experience, it appears to be an important component of the defence system of the organism and a permanent regulator of homeostatic reaction. This book presents and examines research discovered in a behavioural study of 'non-opioid' tolerance.
Helps you select the most appropriate imaging studies to evaluate more than 200 pain conditions so you can implement the most effective management approaches. This title provides you a clear understanding of how and when to use a given modality for a particular pain disorder, whether it involves bone, soft tissue, or the spinal cord.
Discusses pain in children. This book states that children in pain are not simply 'smaller adults', but have particular experiences and requirements that can only be addressed by experts in the field, who are aware of the developmental factors that may influence their pain experience.
Deals specifically with the management of potentially chronical pain, how to assess patients with pain, the factors involved in the development of chronic pain and the setting up and running of a pain management programme. This book focuses on musculoskeletal and fibromyalgic type pain.
Describes the underlying mechanisms and management of pain. This book is aimed at undergraduates who traditionally have received somewhat fragment teaching of this important problem within their curriculum. It intends to bring the elements of pain training together in one place and improve their understanding.
Explores pain control in complex patients such as those with acute-on-chronic pain, acute cancer pain or acute pain from a multitude of medical conditions as well as those who are opioid-tolerant have acute neuropathic pain, or are elderly. This book intends to give readers an understanding of the conventional methods of analgesia.
This book covers the fundamentals of pain, the pharmacology of drugs used, and summarises the current evidence base for the management of acute pain. It provides practical direct clinical applications and strategies for the management of specific medical conditions in patient groups such as the elderly.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience usually arising from actual or potential tissue damage. Acute pain can be a difficult medical problem to diagnose and treat. This book investigates the genetic basis of large individual differences in pain sensitivity.
This second edition of this popular pocketbook has been fully updated to include all the recent developments in the diagnosis and management of neuropathic pain. It includes new chapters on the clinical assessment of neuropathic pain and the use of screening tools in its diagnosis.
With stories and anecdotes, the author describes a chequered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain. He offers a multicultural history that culminates with a discussion of successes, and failures, in the struggle against pain.
An atlas that offers step-by-step visual guidance on the diagnosis of pain syndromes commonly encountered in clinical practice. It features vivid illustrations that depict the physical symptoms and anatomy of each pain site, and diagnostic images demonstrate key findings from MRI, CT, and conventional radiography. It also includes a CD-ROM.
This book reviews the process of implanting and managing spinal cord stimulators, peripheral nerve stimulators, and intrathecal pumps from the start of the process to long term management. Also covers recognition, prevention, and management of complications.
A practical guide for practitioners who perform interventional procedures with radiographic guidance to alleviate acute or chronic pain. It provides an overview of each technique, with detailed full-color illustrations of the relevant anatomy, technical aspects of each treatment, and a description of potential complications.
A how-to-do-it atlas that offers guidance on common interventional pain management techniques for various major anatomic sites. It features over 20 chapters, anatomical diagrams, clinical pearls, and several images - including radiographs, CTs, and MRIs.
Offers guidance on the diagnosis of more than 100 uncommon pain syndromes less frequently encountered in daily practice. This title includes illustrations that depict the physical symptoms and anatomy of various pain sites as well as key imaging findings involving techniques such as MRI, CT, and conventional radiograph.
Deals with the multidisciplinary area of orofacial pain. This title integrates knowledge from the areas of headache and orofacial pain and explains common mechanisms involved in the two phenomena, with important implications for pain diagnosis and management. It is suitable for dental practitioners and pain specialists from various fields.
Focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions - both acute and chronic - from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This title presents the best management options within and across specialties. It includes succinct treatment and therapy guidelines that enable you to access clinically useful information.
Pain is an unpleasant sensation. It is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage". This book presents research in the field from around the globe.
Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. This book examines various facets of pain: the psychological and clinical aspects, the physiological evidence, the major theories of pain and the developments in its control.
Drawing on a range of sources, as well as empirical studies, this book offers a set of reflections on the development of palliative care and its place within a wider social context. It is useful for practitioners, policy makers, teachers and students involved in palliative care or concerned about death, dying and life-limiting illness.
A guide to the interpretation of normal and abnormal laboratory results. It outlines guidelines on specific clinical conditions such as heart failure, management of female infertility, specific lipid monitoring in diabetes and guidance for monitoring renal failure. It is suitable for healthcare professionals.
Assessement and management of pain is an integral aspect of patient care for nurses working in all health care settings. Pain management is a practical guide to current best practice, providing students and newly qualified nurses with the knowledge and skills required to care for a person experiencing or at risk of experiencing pain.
Advocates an interdiciplinary approach to the care of patients with often under-treated pain. This book makes the application to scientific knowledge to the development of practical tools and guidelines for the care of patients in various clinical settings and age groups.
Addresses the nature of pain, the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates of pain, the psychological aspects of pain, the lifespan approach to pain, pain measurement, pain and placebo, and modalities for treating pain. This book provides an overview of the physiological, psychosocial, and environmental aspects of pain experience.
Presents an how-to-do-it approach to the accurate diagnosis of 300 conditions through their physical signs. This book offers information that you need to optimize outcomes for your patients with pain. It gives guidance on conducting physical examinations to help you effectively diagnose pain.
Palliative care is spreading beyond its original hospice base to encompass care in the community, in hospitals, health centres, clinics and nursing homes. This book is suitable for students of health and social care as well as to those involved in purchasing or providing palliative care services.
As palliative care is a major responsibility for teams providing palliative care at home, this book provides a definitive guide on how to provide effective care for people with far-advanced disease. It also deals in detail with emergencies, communications, ethical issues and emphasises throughout the importance of team work.
The Oxford Handbook of Pain Management is an essential resource for all clinicians involved in the management of pain. It brings together the information necessary to provide a truly biopsychosocial approach to the care of patients in pain, and helps the practitioner define the most appropriate therapy for individual conditions.
Contributes to an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering. This title answers questions about which are the most effective methods, and those which are not effective yet continue to be used.
Offers exercises and techniques for dealing with pain. This practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the pain-relieving techniques. It shows how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, and improve your pain levels with diet and exercise.
Offers a scientific understanding behind the common pain disorders. This book covers various aspects of pain science, from molecular and cellular pathways of pain to pain disorders and their treatments. It includes topics specific to gender and age group addressing the trend in research toward developing individualized treatments.
This new edition of The Management of Chronic Pain provides an account of how to deal with major chronic pain syndromes. It covers the background knowledge required in practice, and gives advice on managing patients who suffer chronic pain. It is not a technical manual but provides practical information required for effective patient management.
The prevalence of neck pain disorders is increasing world-wide with approximately 10 percent of adult affected with neck pain. This book focuses on the concepts of pharmacotherapy of neck pain disorders in respect to the cause of neck pain, the nature of pain, and the mechanism of drug action.
Presents topical research in the study of pelvic pain, including myofascial pain syndrome in the pelvic floor; hormonal modulation of genitourinary pain; the pathophysiology of endometriosis associated with pelvic pain; chronic non-bacterial prostatits; physical therapy for women with pelvic pain; and, more.
Accidental falls are the leading cause of death among older adults in the United States. One third of all adults aged 65 and older report falling each year. This book presents research findings on the causes, preventions and interventions that impact fall risk.
Provides a resource on migraine diagnosis and treatment for non headache-specialists who encounter women with migraine. This reference focuses on sex hormones, genetics, social, cultural, psychiatric, and psychological factors that contribute to headache disorders.
Chronic (persistent) pain is recognized as a disease entity, with a broad range of physical, psychological and environmental maladaptions involving the peripheral and central nervous systems. This book provides an overview to bring the readers up to speed with this vitally important area of pain management.
Drawing on the clinical experience of anesthesiology, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, and rheumatology, this book addresses pain assessment and management. It includes common syndromes from most body regions and inclusion of medication, non-medication, and interventional therapy options for nonmalignant and malignant chronic pain.
Basic science and clinical pain research is particularly challenging for several reasons. This book covers such topics as: central mechanisms of pain and pain modulation and clinical use of ion channel blockers (Chen); spinal glutamatergic mechanisms and issues related to glutamate receptor antagonists in pain management (Mao); and more.
Chronic back pain continues to be a major cause of distress, disability, work loss, and a huge cost to society. This book examines the risk factors and mechanisms involved in the transition from acute to chronic back pain. It integrates genetic, biomechanical, neurobiological, psychophysiological, psychosocial, and socieconomic risk factors.
Discusses the status and trends of pain research in order to take a critical and constructive look at the achievements of basic science research that have made significant differences in clinical pain management as well as the gaps between basic science research and clinical pain management.
A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects.
A guide to the anaesthetic and perioperative management of patients during the various procedures performed by general and subspecialist surgeons. It presents details on anaesthetic technique, and guides the anesthesiologist and surgeon through the decisions that must be made before, during, and after surgery.
Describes the origins, mechanisms, beneficial applications and practical details of frequency specific therapy - a treatment technique that uses frequencies, micro amperage current and the principles of biological resonance to treat pain and a wide range of medical conditions.
Presents guidance on a range of intrathecal drug delivery techniques. This book offers advice on a variety of procedures to treat chronic non-malignant pain, cancer pain, and spasticity. It provides coverage on selecting and performing these techniques - as well as weighing relative risks and complications - that helps you ensure optimum outcomes.
Promotes a multidisciplinary approach to pain management in adolescent patients, acknowledging persistent pain is a complex biopsychosocial problem. Focusing on practical, applied strategies incorporating beliefs and values, mediation, relaxation, imagery, physical fitness and pacing, this book examines the many issues surrounding persistent pain.
This is a practical "how to" book that offers knowledge, skills, structure and techniques to help young patients and their families to cope with painful medical procedures. It describes the pharmacological and psychological methods of pain relief and how they may be combined.
A nerve block is the injection of either a local anaesthetic or a drug that inactivates nerves to control otherwise uncontrollable pain. Nerve blocks can be used to determine the source of pain. This book offers information on the nerve blocking techniques that are available in practice.
Nerve growth factor (NGF) has a key role not only in the development of sensory and autonomic neurons, but also in the processes of nociception. This book examines the evidence of the involvement of NGF in painful diseases, and suggests the potential usefulness of anti-NGF strategies as novel analgesics for the disabling pathological conditions.
While chronic pain sends millions to the doctor every year, their treatment remains less than adequate. This book adopts 'biobehavioral' and 'lifespan' approaches on the issue, exploring chronic pain and the interventions that physicians can use to relieve it.
This handy, well-illustrated manual meets the need of interventional pain physicians seeking to understand the radiologic imaging involved in the performance of non-spinal pain procedures. Its format allows the reader to quickly reference any given procedure.