Pain Medicine category: 462 books
by Barry J. Sessle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
When it comes to mechanisms, diagnosis, and management of acute and chronic orofacial pain, no book is more comprehensive than Orofacial Pain. With 54 leading pain specialists documenting the latest research advances and treatments, this book is the new standard resource for understanding, assessing,...
Pain Models
Translational Relevance and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The neurobiology and mechanisms discovered in animals often do not translate to patients with a chronic pain condition. To help researchers and clinicians develop and use models that can help translate data from animals into humans, this book presents experimental animal models, with a focus on how...
Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care
Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care:Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course Rhonda J. Moore, editor
This book takes both a biobehavioral and a lifespan approach to understanding long-term and chronic pain, and intervening to optimize patients’ functioning. Rich in clinical diversity,...
Atlas of Common Pain Syndromes
Expert Consult - Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Noted pain authority Dr. Steven Waldman returns with a new edition of Atlas of Common Pain Syndromes. Delivering complete, concise, step-by-step visual guidance, this innovative, popular atlas equips you to effectively diagnose and manage pain syndromes commonly encountered in any clinical practice....
Positive Options for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Self-Help and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Imagine if the mere breeze of an air conditioner were to send you into excruciating pain. For those suffering from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), historically called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), this crippling neuropathic pain is an unrelenting reality. With symptoms such as swelling,...
Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Discogenic Pain E-Book
Volume 3: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management Series; Expert Consult Premium Edition -- Enhanced Online Features
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Discogenic Pain - a volume in the new Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art guidance on the full range of discogenic pain relief techniques performed today. Leonardo Kapural, MD and Philip Kim, MD...
A Pain Doctor’S Dilemma
Prescribing Opioids in an Era of Overdose
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Dr. Richard Ng can easily recall the darkest day of his life: Feb. 17, 2017.
That was the day he was sentenced to eighty-seven months in prison after he admitted in a plea bargain that he prescribed hydrocodone without legitimate medical purposes to an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement...
Needless Suffering
How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Needless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. People in pain, writes Dr. David Nagel, are the poor of the medical world. Like the poor, they...
When Your Child Hurts
Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Parents of a child in pain want nothing more than to offer immediate comfort. But a child with chronic or recurring pain requires much more. His or her parents need skills and strategies not only for increasing comfort but also for helping their child deal with an array of pain-related challenges, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
This textbook is written as a comprehensive overview of acute pain management. It is designed to guide clinicians through an impressive array of different options available to them and to patients. There has been a flurry of interest in the extent to which acute pain can become chronic pain, and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This volume addresses neuronal pain mechanisms at the peripheral, spinal and supraspinal level which are thought to significantly contribute to pain and which may be the basis for the development of new treatment principles. Chapters on nociceptive mechanisms in the peripheral nociceptive system address...
by Susan S. Lang, Richard B. Patt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Most cancer patients fear unremitting pain more than the prospect of an untimely death, and are surprised to learn that most of the pain and related symptoms of cancer can be successfully addressed by an informed patient working with a determined health care team. Thoroughly updating their widely...
Practical Treatment Options for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents
An Interdisciplinary Therapy Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Pain is an increasingly common symptom in children and adolescents, and nearly 5% of the paediatric population now suffer from severe chronic pain conditions. This manual describes the inpatient treatment programme of one of the world’s largest treatment facility for chronic pain in children –...
Children in Pain
Clinical and Research Issues From a Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our present understanding of the psychosocial aspects of pain in children is reviewed in this monograph by leading scientists and practitioners. The contributions are integrated within a developmental perspective to provide an introduction to the conceptual and methodological tools necessary for comprehension...