Pain Medicine category: 462 books
Backbone
Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain.
For two decades, Karen Duffy —New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress— has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has...
Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain
A Pediatrician's Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From a renowned expert in the field, a parent's guide to managing their child's chronic pain—to give back normal life to the 1 in 5 children for whom pain is a serious problem. A child's chronic pain undermines school performance and social and emotional health, erodes finances, and devastates the...
American Cancer Society's Guide to Pain Control
Understanding and Managing Cancer Pain
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Effective pain management enables people with cancer to live the lives they want to lead-to eat, sleep, spend time with loved ones, work, pursue hobbies-and this helpful guide explains the many pain-relief options available, including medicines and other methods. Readers will discover how to achieve...
Pain Management
Essential Topics for Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Pain management is a vast subject and is changing rapidly. Finding a good resource for learning, however, is difficult. This book covers the entire curriculum relating to pain management and will make it easy to learn all aspects of the subject by covering key concepts in a reader-friendly manner....
The Painful Truth
What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The most common medical problem in America today, chronic pain is more prevalent than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. Yet tens of millions of people struggle with pain because they can't find someone who understands how much pain affects their lives--and because they live in a culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The European Pain Federation EFIC is made up of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Its Health Care Professionals look after a population of over 740 million people in its 37 member countries. European Pain Management provides a review of the organization and delivery...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Cancer Pain provides a comprehensive, practical guide to the management of pain in cancer patients. Beginning with a discussion of current issues in the control of cancer pain, the initial chapters provide a clear, concise explanation of cancer pain syndromes, an up-to-date understanding of the pathophysiological...
From Acute to Chronic Back Pain
Risk Factors, Mechanisms, and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Chronic back pain has been and continues to be a major cause of distress (both to people with persistent pain and their significant others), disability, work loss, and a huge cost to society. Moreover, with the aging population, it is becoming even more prevalent and as a consequence is having an...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Edited by internationally recognized pain experts, this unique book describes 73 real life clinical cases, each followed by discussion of pathogenesis, work-up, differential diagnosis and treatment options. Cases are divided into seven sub-topics: neurologic disorders, spinal disorders, musculoskeletal...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Up to 35% of adults suffer from chronic pain, and a substantial number of these patients are admitted to hospitals every year. A major concern of these patients is whether the pain will be adequately controlled during hospitalization. these patients are more likely to have poor pain control and may...
Chronic Pain and HIV
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS often experience chronic pain due to the many diseases and infections they pick up as a result of a weakened immune system. It interferes with their quality of life and physical functioning, impacts adherence to antiretroviral therapy and HIV primary care, and is associated...
by Perry G. Fine, MD, Michael A. Ashburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics focuses on Pain Management.Topics will include: The Pain Treatment Imperative: Developments in the 21st Century, Imaging Pain, The Opioid Conundrum, Advancing the Pain Agenda in the Veteran Population ,Interventional Treatments of Cancer Pain, Integrating Pain...
Pain in the Cancer Patient
Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pain is unfortunately not an early symptom in neoplastic diseases. When it occurs, however, as it so often does in the advanced stages of the disease, then it can be particularly severe. Many physicians are not able to treat such pain efficiently with the standard methods familiar to them. Even in...
by T3 Publications
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Pain relief is an ongoing need for hundreds of thousand of individuals around the world who have been injured or are suffering from painful medical conditions. Many rely on their family doctor for opiate based pain pills, while others seek help from pain clinics. Unfortunately, both of these options...