Evidence-based Chronic Pain Management

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions * Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering * Seeks to answer the questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used * Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent * Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK

Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland

Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA

About the Contributors
Preface
Understanding chronic pain and evidence
Why evidence matters
Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments
Introduction to evaluation of evidence
Neurobiology of pain
Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote
Psychology of pain
Chronic pain syndromes
Low back pain
Neck pain
Pain associated with osteoarthritis
Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis
Fibromyalgia
Facial pain
Chronic pelvic and perineal pain in women
Pelvic and perineal pain in males
Pain from abdominal viscera
Post-surgical pain syndromes
Painful diabetic neuropathy
Phantom limb pain
Complex regional pain syndrome
Central pain syndromes
Headache
Chest pain syndromes
Cancer pain management
Oncological treatments for cancer pain
Analgesics and co-analgesics in cancer pain
TENS and acupuncture for cancer pain
Psychological interventions for cancer pain
Chronic pain therapies
Interventional therapies
Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain
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Evidence-based Chronic Pain Management

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