1 Epidemiology of Chronic Pain
Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance
2 Pain Mechanisms
Carole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker
3 Evaluation of the patient in pain
>Dennis C. Turk and Kimberly S. Swanson
4 Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Paul Dieppe
5 Management of Low Back Pain
Lesley A. Colvin and James Campbell
6 Neuropathic Pain
Lesley A. Colvin and Suzanne Carty
7 Visceral Pain
James Maybin and Michael G. Serpell
8 Post-surgical Pain
Susan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson
9 Headache and Orofacial Pain
Anne MacGregor and Joanna M Zakrzewska
10 Cancer Pain
Marie Fallon
11 Treating pain in patients with drug-dependence problems
Jane C. Ballantyne
12 Pain in Children
Suellen M Walker
13 Pain in Older Adults
Debra K. Weiner
14 Pain in Pregnancy
George R Harrison
15 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain
David Gillanders
16 Interventional procedures in pain management
Dominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy
17 The role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management
Paul J. Watson
18 The role of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in pain management
Mark I. Johnson
19 Complementary and Alternative Strategies
Margaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson
20 Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain
Eija Kalso
Index
Softcover - 112 pages
Pain is a common presentation and this brand new title in the ABC series focuses on the pain management issues most often encountered in primary care. It covers all the chronic pain presentations in primary care right through to tertiary and palliative care and includes guidance on pain management in special groups such as pregnancy, children, the elderly and the terminally ill.
It covers new findings on the effectiveness of interventions and includes the progression to acute pain and appropriate pharmacological management, and features pain assessment, epidemiology and the evidence base in a truly comprehensive reference.