Key Topics in Chronic PainKey Topics in Chronic Pain is designed to help the professional understand the working of the chronic pain clinic, its patients and its treatments. Separate chapters describe the various clinical pain syndromes commonly encountered and their management. Emphasis is placed on the management of conditions as recommended by randomised controlled trial |
Contents
INTRODUCTIONWHAT IS THE PAIN CLINIC? | 1 |
ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCEEVIDENCE IN DECISIONMAKING | 6 |
ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE EVIDENCEBASED MEDICINE AND THE SCIENCE OF REVIEWING RESEARCH | 11 |
ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE EXPRESSING AND INTERPRETING THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH | 17 |
ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC PAINHISTORY | 19 |
ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC PAINEXAMINATION | 22 |
ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC PAINPSYCHOSOCIAL | 28 |
BACK PAINMEDICAL MANAGEMENT | 32 |
NOCICEPTIVE PAINAN OVERVIEW | 136 |
OSTEOARTHRITIS | 141 |
OSTEOPOROSIS | 143 |
PELVIC AND VULVAL PAIN | 146 |
POSTAMPUTATION PAIN | 152 |
POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA | 156 |
PREGNANCY | 160 |
SCARS NEUROMATA POSTSURGICALPAIN | 168 |
BACK PAININJECTIONS | 39 |
BACK PAINSURGERY | 44 |
BURNS | 52 |
CANCERINTRATHECAL AND EPIDURAL INFUSIONS | 55 |
CANCERNERVE BLOCKS | 60 |
CANCEROPIOID DRUGS | 63 |
CANCEROTHER DRUGS | 68 |
CHEST PAIN | 71 |
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES | 76 |
DEPRESSION AND PAIN | 82 |
FACIAL PAIN | 86 |
GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN | 90 |
HEADACHE | 93 |
IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE AND PAIN | 101 |
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | 104 |
MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN SYNDROMES | 109 |
NECK PAIN | 114 |
NEURALGIA AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY | 120 |
NEURALGIATRIGEMINAL AND GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL | 124 |
NEUROPATHIC PAINAN OVERVIEW | 131 |
SPINAL CORD INJURY | 174 |
STROKE | 177 |
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND PAIN | 180 |
THERAPYANTIARRHYTHMICS | 183 |
THERAPYANTICONVULSANTS | 185 |
THERAPYANTIDEPRESSANTS | 188 |
THERAPYANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS | 191 |
THERAPYBOTULINUM TOXIN | 195 |
THERAPYCANNABINOIDS | 198 |
THERAPYCAPSAICIN | 201 |
THERAPYKETAMINE AND OTHER NMDA ANTAGONISTS | 203 |
AUTONOMIC | 206 |
SOMATIC AND LESION TECHNIQUES | 210 |
THERAPYNEUROSURGICAL TECHNIQUES | 214 |
THERAPYOPIOIDS IN CHRONIC PAIN | 221 |
THERAPYPHYSICAL | 226 |
THERAPYPSYCHOLOGICAL | 229 |
THERAPYSPINALCORD AND BRAIN STIMULATION | 232 |
THERAPYTENS ACUPUNCTURE AND LASER STIMULATION | 242 |
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Other editions - View all
Key Topics Chronic Pain Ebk K. M. Grady,Km Grady,Andrew M. Severn,P Eldridge No preview available - 2003 |
Key Topics in Chronic Pain, Second Edition Kate M. Grady,Andrew M. Severn,Paul R. Eldridge No preview available - 2002 |
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