Clinical pain management: a practical guide

"In his Foreword to the first edition of this book, Clinical Pain Management: A Practical Guide, Ron Melzack emphasised that pain has many dimensions and that despite advances in pain management and understanding, chronic pain in particular continues to be a major health concern. This unfortunately is still the case, and many challenging problems still exist in managing and understanding chronic pain. The Introductory chapter of this second edition of the book by its three editors, Drs. Lynch, Craig and Peng, draws attention to the challenges that exist for people living with chronic pain conditions, for the clinician trying to provide effective management of the patient's pain, for the scientist seeking to unravel the mechanisms underlying pain, and for society as a whole. These challenges stem from the complexity and multidimensional nature of chronic pain, the limited understanding of the processes underlying most chronic pain conditions, and the variety of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches advocated for pain management, some of which have little or no solid scientific evidence base to support their use"--

Front Matter -- Basic Understanding of Pain Medicine. The challenge of pain: a multidimensional phenomenon / Mary E Lynch, Kenneth D Craig, Philip W Peng -- Epidemiology and economics of chronic and recurrent pain / Dennis C Turk, Kushang V Patel -- Basic mechanisms and pathophysiology / Muhammad Saad Yousuf, Allan I Basbaum, Theodore J Price -- Psychosocial perspectives on chronic pain / Kenneth D Craig, Judith Versloot -- Identification of risk and protective factors in the transition from acute to chronic post surgical pain / Joel Katz, M Gabrielle Pagé, Aliza Weinrib, Hance Clarke -- Placebo/nocebo: a two-sided coin in the clinician's hand / Elisa Frisaldi, Aziz Shaibani, Fabrizio Benedetti -- Knowledge transfer to patients experiencing pain and poor sleep and sleep disorder / Gilles J Lavigne, Alberto Herrero Babiloni, Beatrice P De Koninck, Marc O Martel, Jacqueline Tu Anh Thu Lam, Cibele Dal Fabbro, Louis Beaumont, Caroline Arbour -- Clinical assessment in adult patients / Christine Short, Mary E Lynch -- Assessment of Pain. Measurement and assessment of pain in pediatric patients / Jennifer N Stinson, Kathryn A Birnie, Petra Hroch Tiessen -- Laboratory investigations, imag…