As this work is published, at the beginning of the 21st Century, a new perspective of the classic orthopedic enigma of the patellofemoral pain problem is becoming increasingly accepted. It is clear that the decades-old paradigm of a pure structural and biomechanical explanation …
Accompanying DVD contains ... "the surgical techniques that are in use today for the patellofemoral joint ... described by the surgeons who have designed the technique[s]."--P. xii.
1. Introduction; 2. Stress; 3. Anxiety and fear; 4. Emotional numbness and deprivation; 5. Aggression, overcrowding and discomfort; 6. Exercise; 7. Cold; 8. Heat and burns; 9. Thirst and hunger; 10. Pain; 11. Trauma; 12. Sickness and disease; 13. Digestive system; 14. Poisoning;…
Suffering is a state of mind that is difficult to measure and analyse in human beings and considerably more so in animals. It is related to the environment in which we live and our physical and mental states. Understanding the physiology of suffering in animals is crucial in ass…
"Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with p…
"Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with p…
"This concise pocketbook addresses the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of the major visceral pain phenomena, the fundamentals of their neurophysiological mechanisms and the principles of their treatment. It also provides overviews of current diagnostic and therapeutic …
Visceral pain, or pain in the internal organs, is often quite difficult for the clinician to recognize promptly as its characteristics are often atypical and vary with time. Patients with visceral pain also often present with concurrent painful conditions in more than one intern…
This reference supplies the latest information on conditions that are not well-understood and even discounted by some practitioners. Drs. Wallace (medicine, U. of California, Los Angeles) and Clauw (rheumatology, U. of Michigan Medical School) have compiled 35 chapters by intern…
The first book to address issues of suffering as separate from pain that require psychologically and culturally sensitive interventions.
