Practical Chronic Pain Management: A Case-Based Approach

This book focuses on both the management of the pain as well as the pain patient and is formatted as a practical, evidence-based guide to managing chronic pain conditions. It meets the market need for a reference that aides physicians in understanding and improving chronic pain in their patients. Organized across 46 chapters, the book begins with an introduction on chronic pain evaluation, and specifically stresses the importance of complete patient evaluation including social and psychological evaluation. Subsequent chapters then start with an evaluation, medical and interventional options available, how and when to move from one option to another and the level of evidence offered for each intervention. These unique chapter elements provide the reader with a case-based approach to managing their patients. Additionally, a brief discussion of epidemiology and pathophysiology of the disease process is included and the technical aspects of interventional techniques are reviewed. Edited by a leader in the field with international contributing authors across pain medicine, Practical Chronic Pain Management this book is written primarily for anesthesiologists, pain specialists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians.

1.ABCs of Evaluation of Patient in Chronic Pain -- 2. A 40-Year-Old Woman with Chronic Recurrent Headache (Migraine) -- 3. Cluster Headache -- 4. Atypical Facial Pain/Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain -- 5. A 75-Year-Old Woman with Frequent Fleeting Face Pain (Trigeminal Neuralgia) -- 6. A Patient with Chronic Pain in the Back of the Head -- 7. A 35-Year-Old Man with Neck Pain Since a Car Accident (Whiplash Injury).-8. A 45-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain of Insidious Onset.-9. Cervical Spondylosis.-10. A 65-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain (Cervical Facet Disease).-11. Cervical Radicular Pain -- 12. Temporomandibular Joint -- 13. A 45-Year-Old Patient with Persistent Shoulder Pain (Rotator Cuff Injury) -- 14. A 75-Year-Old Man with Chronic Shoulder Pain (Shoulder Arthritis) -- 15. A 35-Year-Old Man with Persistent Pain After Hand Injury (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) -- 16. A 75-Year-Old Woman with Hand Grip Weakness -- 17. A 55-Year-Old Woman with Little Finger Numbness and Pain for 6 Months -- 18. A 68-Year-Old Man with Chronic Wrist Pain -- 19. A 45-Year-Old Patient with Chronic Chest Wall Pain -- 20. A 45-Year-Old Woman with Persistent Pain After Mastectomy -- 21. Ch…