Bonica's management of pain
(eBook)

Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --

Cancer-related bone pain

Cancer-related visceral pain

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer pain management

Cancer pain in children

Acute pain management in children

Acute pain in adults

Regional anesthesia techniques for acute pain management

Burn pain

Persistent pain in children

Pain in the older person

Obsteric pain

Pain and sickle cell disease

Pain in human immunodeficiency virus disease

The treatment of chronic pain in patients with history of substance abuse

Compliance monitoring in chronic pain management

Headache

Noncardiac chest pain

Abdominal, peritoneal, and retroperitoneal pain

Pelvic pain in females

Pelvic pain in males

Cranial neuralgias

Facial pain

Neck and arm pain

Chest wall pain

Lower extremity pain

Acute low back pain

Chronic low back pain

Surgery for low back pain

Failed back surgery syndrome

Psychological screening of spine surgery candidates

Rational pharmacotherapy for pain

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen

Opioid analgesics

Skeletal muscle relaxants and analgesic balms

Neuropathic pain pharmacotherapy

Anger and pain

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain

Pain and anxiety and depression

Hypnosis

Relaxation and imagery techniques

Group therapy for chronic pain

Motivating pain patients for behavioral change

Basic concepts in biomechanics and musculoskeletal rehabilitation

Pain rehabilitation

Assessment and treatment of chemical dependency

Physical therapy agents

Exercise therapy for low back pain

Complementary and alternative medicine

Peripheral nerve stimulation

Spinal cord stimulation

Motor cortex and deep brain stimulation

Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks

Epidural steroid injections

Intrathecal drug delivery in the management of pain

Intradiscal therapies for low back pain

Neurolytic blockade for noncancer pain

Surgery of the peripheral nervous system as a treatment for pain

The surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia

Ablative neurosurgical procedures for chronic pain

Interdisciplinary chronic pain management: perspectives on history, current status, and future viability

Spine clinics

Pain management in primary care

Pain management at the end of life

Training pain specialists

Emergencies in the pain clinic

Pain management in the emergency department

Pain management in the intensive care unit

The future of pain medicine: an epilogue.