Pain and pain management

This atlas is the result of research involving over 3,000 patients consecutively recruited since 2004.

This unique, contemporary book is the successor edition of a ground-breaking, authoritative title devoted to the pathology and treatment of chiari malformations.

This book provides a practically applicable guide on the management of patients with pain in the inpatient setting in a variety of populations.

This book focuses on the modern clinical management of acute and chronic pain syndromes.

This brief uses California's CURES (Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System) 2.

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.

Since its serendipitous discovery, surgeons and physicians have continued to study and refine the surgical treatment of chronic headaches.

This text presents a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.

This book serves as a tool for general psychiatrists, medical students, residents, and fellows looking for a clinically relevant and high-yield overview of addiction psychiatry in preparation for their board exams - or for everyday clinical practice.

This comprehensive book serves as a review for the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) exam and functions as a concise guide for all interventional pain doctors.

This multi-faceted book provides readers with comprehensive guidance to spine pain care.

This book discusses and explains the importance of biochemistry knowledge in understanding what happens to patients during anesthesia and/or to those being in intensive care.

This volume describes the impact of headache disorders on public health, and their adverse consequences for society.

This comprehensive book is devoted to revision total joint arthroplasty and provides state-of-the-art guidance in a field where level-I evidence is difficult to produce.

Experiential evidence shows that pain is associated with common meanings.

This book provides an overview of the field of pain genomics and the genomics of related, or co-occuring, symptoms, the current state-of-the-science, and challenges that remain.

This book is designed to focus on the role of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) in health and disease.

The aim of this book is not only to introduce readers with a broad spectrum of biological actions of the NOP receptor, but also to feature a detailed look at the N/OFQ-NOP receptor system, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and clinical data of NOP-targeted ligands.

Pain is an increasingly common symptom in children and adolescents.

The second edition of this book brings together the knowledge, skills and attitudes of specialists in both respiratory and palliative medicine to focus on the palliative care of patients with respiratory diseases.

Due to a wide-spread developing interest in ultrasound-guided pain intervention by clinicians, the demand for a practical reference material on this topic has grown simultaneously.

This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows.

There is a significant gap in current knowledge about infusion therapy for treating different pain, headache and psychiatric conditions.

This book addresses opioids and opioid use disorders from epidemiological, clinical, and public health perspectives.

This book addresses all aspects of neuromodulation therapy in the management of headache and facial pain disorders, paying particular attention to the application of this rapidly growing and fascinating therapy to different forms of headache and facial pain conditions.

This book provides essential insights into the current state of knowledge regarding the main aspects of cluster headache and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias.

Designed and written by a team of clinically established academics, this is a unique book that is an excellent manual for physicians practicing pain medicine or treating pain in neurosurgery, orthopedic, neurology, or family practice clinics.

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;.

This book discusses interventional treatment options on intractable (drug resistant) headache patients and extended headache attacks and extensively reviews the reasons behind treatment failure in intractable headaches, offering potential solutions based on clinical black holes of headache outpatient practice.

This book serves as an anatomic atlas of the nerves that innervate the joints of the human body in a format that also provides technical insight into pathways that both interventional pain management and surgical subspecialists can use to denervate those painful joints when traditional approaches to manage the pain are no longer successful.

This easy-to-consult guide examines the most advanced techniques in the radiological evaluation of the disc and degenerative disc disease, using conventional, functional, dynamic and advanced imaging.

This book discusses the role of placebos and nocebos in the treatment of headache disorders.

This book offers a diagnostic tool for physicians and psychologists who want to systematically document pain within a multimodal structure.

The main themes presented in this volume are exercise intolerance and muscle contracture.

This book proposes a didactic approach to the different aspects of pain in mental health.

Tumors cells no longer confined to an affected organ can be released through lymph and the blood stream, disseminate and form metastases.

This book addresses all aspects of neuromodulation therapy in the management of headache and facial pain disorders, paying particular attention to the application of this rapidly growing and fascinating therapy to different forms of headache and facial pain conditions.

This book discusses and explains the importance of biochemistry knowledge in understanding what happens to patients during anesthesia and/or to those being in intensive care.

Les douleurs chroniques (céphalées, migraines, lombalgies, fibromyalgie, etc.

Instrument-Assisted Myofascial Therapy: Principles and Clinical Applications provides a complete overview of this effective therapy (IAMT) based on the authors' own clinical experience of using instruments to treat myofascial lesions.

To improve quality of life for cancer patients has been the endeavour of the author for the past 25 years in rehabilitation and palliation.

There is a way to fix your sciatica!

A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis.

Are you suffering in silence?

FMS, a common term for fibromyalgia, attacks men, women, and even children of all ages, varying in intensity from patient to patient.

Winner of the IPPY Award gold medal for Most Progressive Health Book On December 2, 2004, Gwen Olsen s niece Megan committed suicide by setting herself on fire and ended her tortured life as a victim of the adverse effects of prescription drugs.

This book was written to help all interested parties (eg, clinicians who treat pain, drug and medical-practice regulators, law-enforcement authorities and pharmacists) to sort out the clinical, regulatory, and ethical issues associated with the prescribing of opioid analgesics and to reduce the risk of medication misuse, abuse, and diversion.

Hip and Knee Pain Disorders has been written to provide a state-of-the-art, evidence-informed and clinically-informed overview of the examination and conservative management of hip/knee pain conditions.

The book focuses on the practical application of articulation and mobilisation techniques with clear explanations and visual support of the techniques.

This clinical textbook will update the reader on the relevant anatomy, known biomechanics, clinical assessment, musculoskeletal conditions and treatment of the thorax and how these relate to the function of the whole body.