Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Editor(s): Catherine F. Stannard, Eija Kalso, Jane Ballantyne

Published Online: 20 JUN 2010 07:38PM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405152914

Online ISBN: 9781444314380

DOI: 10.1002/9781444314380

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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
  • Answers 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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiii)

  2. Part 1: Understanding Evidence and Pain

    1. Chapter 1

      Why Evidence Matters (pages 1–13)

      Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry

    2. Chapter 2

      Clinical Trial Design for Chronic Pain Treatments (pages 14–30)

      Alec B. O'Connor and Robert H. Dworkin

    3. Chapter 3

      Introduction to Evaluation of Evidence (pages 31–41)

      Eija Kalso

    4. Chapter 4

      Neurobiology of Pain (pages 42–51)

      Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson

    5. Chapter 5

      Intractable Pain and the Perception of Time: Every Patient is an Anecdote (pages 52–58)

      David B. Morris

    6. Chapter 6

      Psychology of Chronic Pain and Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions (pages 59–67)

      Christopher Eccleston

  3. Part 2: Clinical Pain Syndromes: The Evidence

    1. Chapter 7

      Chronic Low Back Pain (pages 69–82)

      Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes

    2. Chapter 8

      Chronic Neck Pain and Whiplash (pages 83–96)

      Allan Binder

    3. Chapter 9

      Pain Associated with Osteo-Arthritis (pages 97–105)

      David L. Scott

    4. Chapter 10

      Pain Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis (pages 106–120)

      Paul Creamer and Sarah Love-Jones

    5. Chapter 11

      Fibromyalgia (pages 121–133)

      Winfried Häuser, Kati Thieme, Frank Petzke and Claudia Sommer

    6. Chapter 12

      Facial Pain (pages 134–150)

      Joanna M. Zakrzewska

    7. Chapter 13

      Pelvic and Perineal Pain in Women (pages 151–161)

      William Stones and Beverly Collett

    8. Chapter 14

      Perineal Pain in Males (pages 162–173)

      Andrew P. Baranowski

    9. Chapter 15

      Pain from Abdominal Organs (pages 174–193)

      Timothy J. Ness and L. Vandy Black

    10. Chapter 16

      Postsurgical Pain Syndromes (pages 194–203)

      Fred Perkins and Jane Ballantyne

    11. Chapter 17

      Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (pages 204–221)

      Christina Daousi and Turo J. Nurmikko

    12. Chapter 18

      Postherpetic Neuralgia (pages 222–236)

      Turo J. Nurmikko

    13. Chapter 19

      Phantom Limb Pain (pages 237–247)

      Lone Nikolajsen

    14. Chapter 20

      Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (pages 248–266)

      Andreas Binder and Ralf Baron

    15. Chapter 21

      Central Pain Syndromes (pages 267–278)

      Kristina B. Svendsen, Nanna B. Finnerup, Henriette Klit and Troels Staehelin Jensen

    16. Chapter 22

      Headache (pages 279–291)

      Peer Tfelt-Hansen

    17. Chapter 23

      Chest Pain Syndromes (pages 292–307)

      Austin Leach and Michael Chester

  4. Part 3: Cancer Pain

    1. Chapter 24

      Oncologic Therapy in Cancer Pain (pages 309–326)

      Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto

    2. Chapter 26

      Psychologic Interventions for Cancer Pain (pages 337–347)

      Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy

    3. Chapter 27

      Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Acupuncture (pages 348–365)

      Mark I. Johnson

  5. Part 3: Cancer pain

    1. Chapter 25

      Cancer Pain: Analgesics and Co-Analgesics (pages 327–336)

      Rae Frances Bell

  6. Part 4: Treatment Modalities: The Evidence

    1. Chapter 28

      Interventional Therapies (pages 367–399)

      Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen

    2. Chapter 29

      Spinal Cord Stimulation for Refractory Angina (pages 400–406)

      Mats Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll and Bengt Linderoth

    3. Chapter 30

      Rehabilitative Treatment for Chronic Pain (pages 407–423)

      James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough and Michael Schatman

    4. Chapter 31

      Drug Treatment of Chronic Pain (pages 424–433)

      Henry McQuay

    5. Chapter 32

      Complementary Therapies for Pain Relief (pages 434–437)

      Edzard Ernst

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      Index (pages 439–450)

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