The Handbook of Chronic PainThe objective of this new book is to promote and enable closer cooperation 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. The structure of the book completely mirrors this objective. The book has nine parts, arranged according to a balanced plan. Parts I and II deal with theoretical (basic science) approaches to pain, whereby Part I focuses on the medical approaches and Part II on the psychosocial ones. Part III is devoted to pain evaluation and assessment, whereby chapter 9 deals with the medical aspects, chapter 10 with the psychophysiological and psychiatric aspects, and chapter 11 with the psychological psychometric approach, describing different commonly used questionnaires for assessing various aspects of pain. Parts IV to Part VII are devoted to treatment of pain. Part IV focuses on medical treatments, Part V on psychological treatments, Part VI on palliative approaches, and Part VII on complementary approaches (mainly those supported by enough research and evidence). Part VIII focuses on particular pain syndromes, those that are most frequent in the practice of pain, emphasizing both medical and psychological aspects in each chapter. Finally, Part IX deals with the practice of treating pain - in chapter 29 with the facilities and pain centers, namely, the locations where the integration of the described approaches to pain is expected to take place, and in chapter 30 with the problems of the health professional that treats pain. |
Contents
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Taxonomy and Classification of Pain | 41 |
Chronic Non Cancer Pain | 57 |
Psychological and Psychosocial Considerations | 75 |
Quality of Life and Coping in Chronic Pain Patients | 77 |
Patient and Family in the Context of Chronic Pain | 101 |
Psychological and Psychopathological Characteristics of Patients with Pain | 115 |
Psychological Approaches to Treatment of Pain Sensory Affective Cognitive and Behavioral | 299 |
Psychological Approaches to Pain Management Behavioral Modification | 323 |
Hypnosis in the Management of Chronic Pain Conditions and the Acute Pain Accompanying their Treatment | 335 |
Nursing and Palliative Approaches | 359 |
Chronic Pain A Nursing Perspective | 361 |
Palliative Care | 379 |
Physical and Complementary Approaches | 399 |
Use of Electricity and Other Physical Agents For Chronic Pain Relief¹²³ | 401 |
The Anthropology of Pain | 135 |
Pain Evaluation | 143 |
The Medical Evaluation of Pain | 145 |
The Psychophysiological Evaluation of Chronic Pain | 153 |
Psychological Evaluation of the Chronic Pain Patient | 165 |
Medical Therapeutic Approaches | 183 |
Pharmacological Therapy of Pain Connection Between Theory and Practice | 185 |
Common Nerve Blocks Used in Pain Medicine | 207 |
The Neurosurgical Approach to Chronic Pain | 229 |
Implantable Devices and Drug Delivery Systems | 247 |
Radiation Therapy Pain of Malignant and NonMalignant Origin | 273 |
Psychosocial Therapeutic Approaches | 297 |
Herbal Therapy for Pain Control | 423 |
Particular Pain Syndromes Medical and Psychological Aspects | 431 |
Headache | 433 |
Low Back Pain | 465 |
Perineal and Pelvic Pain | 489 |
Rheumatic Pain | 501 |
Pain and Suffering in Cancer | 533 |
Organization of a Pain Service | 551 |
Pain Treatment Facilities Terminology and Characteristics | 553 |
Burnout and Other Problems of the Health Professional Treating Pain | 561 |
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Common terms and phrases
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