Pain and pain management

Written by a professional musician who is also a certified occupational therapist, Teaching Healthy Musicianship first and foremost help music educators avoid common injuries that they themselves encounter, and in the process it also equips them with the tools they need to instill healthy musicianship practices in their students.

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende und dennoch auf das Wesentliche konzentrierte Darstellung der Infiltrationstherapie mit Lokalanästhetika.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

Back pain is extremely common - about eight in 10 people in the UK are affected at some time in their lives.

There are few situations in anesthesia where precise anatomic location is more important than in regional anesthesia.

In anesthesia practice and treatment, pharmacology and therapeutics are intimately related, synergistic, and mutually reinforcing.

50 Studies Every Palliative Doctor Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of palliative medicine.

'Osteo-arthritis does not kill, it merely tortures.

Ankylosing Spondylitis in Clinical Practice is a concise, practical guide on the diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition.

Headache and Chronic Pain Syndromes provides a case-based approach to state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment of patients with common chronically painful conditions.

We all have times when we lack confidence but some of us criticize ourselves constantly.

Consciousness, Awareness, and Anesthesia explores the scientific conundrum of consciousness and the clinical complications of awareness during general anesthesia.

This first of its kind richly illustrated book provides a tabular and schematic representation of all the peripheral nerves in the human body using a standardized landmark-based algorithm for the definition of the nerve's "e;Point of optimal visibility (POV)"e;.

A one-stop reference for clinicians at all levels faced with uncommon problems in acute medicine.

This book provides an authoritative overview of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) treatment menus for 16 pain categories with an evidence-based literature review on each pain disorder, illustrative figures showing anatomy and techniquesIntroductory chapters cover basic information about the mechanism, function and the analgesic effects of the BoNTs based on the data derived from animal studies.

This book describes bedside pain management interventions for basic clinical situations commonly encountered during the inpatient care.

Before the late 1970s, interest in caffeine among both the general public and the scientific community was at a relatively low level for many years, even though it was recognized that caffeine was an al- most universal component of the diet.

Venous thrombo-embolism, venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are common complications in postoperative patients.

Freedom to Move offers an exercise blueprint for rehabilitating back and neck pain and the spinal dysfunction associated with many 'injuries'.

This reference documents state-of-the-art trends and advancements in the utilization imaging modalities for the analysis of bones and their surrounding soft tissues, including muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels.

Concise, highly illustrated text covers the key aspects of all imaging modalities of relevance to anaesthetists and intensivists.

Just when you feared your overstuffed, eyesore of a closet was a lost cause, here's the antidote to all your closet woes.

This comprehensive review covers the full and latest array of interventional techniques for managing chronic pain.

This is the first atlas to depict in high-resolution images the fine structure of the spinal canal, the nervous plexuses, and the peripheral nerves in relation to clinical practice.

The most misunderstood and complex subject in medicine is the hyperpathic pain of sympathetic dystrophy.

Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain provides an interdisciplinary overview of medications used to treat chronic pain, specifically the benefits and risks that are posed by long-term opioids use.

Dieses gut verständliche Arbeitsbuch vermittelt praxisnahes psychosomatisches Fachwissen für die Behandlung und Betreuung chronischer SchmerzpatientInnen.

Designed for primary care clinicians, this book is about patients who suffer with long term pain.

Consciousness, Awareness, and Anesthesia explores the scientific conundrum of consciousness and the clinical complications of awareness during general anesthesia.

A thoroughly updated 2007 edition of this well-established guide to obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia, from conception to birth.

Ten papers of thirty questions each cover the entire syllabus, with questions pitched at the right level for the exam.

Divided into twelve sections that cover the entirety of anesthetic practice, this is a case-based, comprehensive review of anesthesiology that covers the basics of anesthetic management and reflects all new guidelines and recently developed standards of care.

Edited by internationally recognized pain experts, this book offers 73 clinically relevant cases, accompanied by discussion in a question-and-answer format.

Explains anesthesiology core clinical competencies in an engaging case study format, making them clinically relevant for medical students.

 Migraine surgery is the only existing treatment option that can lead to a permanent symptomatic improvement.

Primary sensory neurons respond to peripheral stimulation and project to the spinal cord.

Supported by an extensive review of migraine pathogenesis and more than 200 case histories gleaned from the authors' personal experiences, this guide proposes two radical new concepts: all primary headaches are fundamentally a form of migraine and everyone may experience some manifestation of the migraine process in their life.

Opioid analgesics are among the most effective medications for pain management but are associated with serious and increasing public health problems, including abuse, addiction, and death from overdose.

This text covers the major controversies and "e;myths"e; in each of the major anesthesia subspecialties.

This book offers essential guidance on selecting the most appropriatesurgical management option for a variety of spinal conditions, includingidiopathic problems, and degenerative disease.

New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder reviews the latest developments in preclinical and clinical research of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Offering timely coverage of this complex field, Interventional Management of Chronic Visceral Pain Syndromes is a practical, evidence-based guide for the mechanisms, presentation, diagnosis, and treatments of chronic non-malignant and malignant abdominal pain syndromes.

This practical guide, beautifully illustrated with line drawings and images throughout, covers the basic science, laser physics, patient selection, diagnostic maneuvers and useful imaging methods of PLDD.