Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditionsContributes 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 sufferingAnswers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be usedIncludes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalentWritten by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain Content: Chapter 1 Why Evidence Matters (pages 1–13): Andrew Moore and Sheena DerryChapter 2 Clinical Trial Design for Chronic Pain Treatments (pages 14–30): Alec B. O'Connor and Robert H. DworkinChapter 3 Introduction to Evaluation of Evidence (pages 31–41): Eija KalsoChapter 4 Neurobiology of Pain (pages 42–51): Victoria Harvey and Anthony DickensonChapter 5 Intractable Pain and the Perception of Time: Every Patient is an Anecdote (pages 52–58): David B. MorrisChapter 6 Psychology of Chronic Pain and Evidence?Based Psychological Interventions (pages 59–67): Christopher EcclestonChapter 7 Chronic Low Back Pain (pages 69–82): Maurits van Tulder and Bart KoesChapter 8 Chronic Neck Pain and Whiplash (pages 83–96): Allan BinderChapter 9 Pain Associated with Osteo?Arthritis (pages 97–105): David L. ScottChapter 10 Pain Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis (pages 106–120): Paul Creamer and Sarah Love?JonesChapter 11 Fibromyalgia (pages 121–133): Winfried Hauser, Kati Thieme, Frank Petzke and Claudia SommerChapter 12 Facial Pain (pages 134–150): Joanna M. ZakrzewskaChapter 13 Pelvic and Perineal Pain in Women (pages 151–161): William Stones and Beverly CollettChapter 14 Perineal Pain in Males (pages 162–173): Andrew P. BaranowskiChapter 15 Pain from Abdominal Organs (pages 174–193): Timothy J. Ness and L. Vandy BlackChapter 16 Postsurgical Pain Syndromes (pages 194–203): Fred Perkins and Jane BallantyneChapter 17 Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (pages 204–221): Christina Daousi and Turo J. NurmikkoChapter 18 Postherpetic Neuralgia (pages 222–236): Turo J. NurmikkoChapter 19 Phantom Limb Pain (pages 237–247): Lone NikolajsenChapter 20 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (pages 248–266): Andreas Binder and Ralf BaronChapter 21 Central Pain Syndromes (pages 267–278): Kristina B. Svendsen, Nanna B. Finnerup, Henriette Klit and Troels Staehelin JensenChapter 22 Headache (pages 279–291): Peer Tfelt?HansenChapter 23 Chest Pain Syndromes (pages 292–307): Austin Leach and Michael ChesterChapter 24 Oncologic Therapy in Cancer Pain (pages 309–326): Rita Janes and Tiina SaartoChapter 26 Psychologic Interventions for Cancer Pain (pages 337–347): Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy AbernethyChapter 27 Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Acupuncture (pages 348–365): Mark I. JohnsonChapter 25 Cancer Pain: Analgesics and Co?Analgesics (pages 327–336): Rae Frances BellChapter 28 Interventional Therapies (pages 367–399): Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. CohenChapter 29 Spinal Cord Stimulation for Refractory Angina (pages 400–406): Mats Borjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andrell and Bengt LinderothChapter 30 Rehabilitative Treatment for Chronic Pain (pages 407–423): James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough and Michael SchatmanChapter 31 Drug Treatment of Chronic Pain (pages 424–433): Henry McQuayChapter 32 Complementary Therapies for Pain Relief (pages 434–437): Edzard Ernst