Managing Pain

The understanding of pain has undergone extraordinary development over the last 25 years. Half of all medical visits are initiated because of pain. The need for all clinicians and trainees to have a foundational knowledge of pain has become more critically important than ever. Not surprisingly, most books on pain medicine are almost all written by "pain management doctors," physicians who've trained in "pain medicine" and devote their lives to treating pain. However, the burden of pain extends to all doctors, not just those who treat it every day. Managing Pain: Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment offers a fundamental guide on the diagnosis and therapy of frequently encountered pain conditions for non-pain physicians and clinicians. Written using easily-accessible language, this book first reviews the basics of opioids and other therapies, including psychotherapy and complementary modalities. The second part of the book presents clinically-relevant cases chosen to reflect those conditions most frequently encountered by primary care providers. Edited by world-renowned experts in pain medicine, with many chapters written by non-pain physicians who are experts in their respective specialties, Managing Pain: Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment is a useful guide for the non-pain-trained healthcare provider who is on the frontlines treating chronic pain. It should be a compulsory read for all primary care providers. Doody's Notes 2013I. Pharmacologic Therapies ; 1. Opioids ; Jianren Mao, Lucy Chen, and Steven P. Cohen ; 2. NSAIDs and Adjunctive Pain Medications ; Howard Smith,Charles Argoff, and Kalyna Apkarian ; 3. Phytomedicines for the Treatment of Pain ; Julia Vlachojannis and Sigrun Chrubasik ; II. Non-Pharmacologic Pain Therapies ; 4. Psychotherapy for Pain: Cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and exercise ; David A. Williams and Afton L. Hassett ; 5. Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Pain ; Richard Harris and Suzie Zick ; III. Additional Considerations in the Pain Patient ; 6. Management of Addiction in the Pain Patient ; Glenn Treisman ; 7. Sleep and Pain ; Michael Sternberg, Helen A. Baghdoyan, and Ralph Lydic ; Case-Based Pain Chapters ; 8. Low back pain-Axial LBP, radicular pain, SI joints ; Steven P. Cohen, Artemus Flagg, and Julie H.Y. Huang ; 9. Neck and Upper Extremity Radicular Pain ; Robert W. Hurley and Tomas Kucera ; 10. Arthritis ; Kristine Phillips ; 11. Neuropathies- DPN, HIV, idiopathic ; Thomas Brannagan and Christina M. Ulane ; 12. Chronic Post-Surgical and Post-Traumatic Pain ; Chad M. Brummett and Srinivas Chiravuri ; 13. Herpes Zoster and Postherptic Neuralgia ; Mark Wallace, Andrei Sdrulla, and Julie H.Y. Huang ; 14. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ; Salim Hayek and Henry Vucetic ; 15. Headache ; Wade Cooper ; 16. Non-Cardiac Chest Pain ; Guy Eslick and Sharon X. H. Hu ; 17. Abdominal Pain ; Ami Sperber and Roy Dekel ; 18. Pelvic Pain ; Suzie As-Sanie and Devon Shuchman ; 19. Central Pain- post-stroke pain, phantom pain, spinal cord injury ; Brian G. Wilhelmi and Srinivasa Raja ; 20. Fibromyalgia and Other Disorders of Central Pain Processing ; Daniel J. Clauw