Problem-Based Pain Management

Pain management is an essential part of clinical practice for all healthcare providers from trainees, physician assistants and nurse practitioners through to practising physicians. Problem-Based Pain Management is a collaboration between experts in anesthesiology, geriatric medicine, neurology, psychiatry and rehabilitation which presents a multidisciplinary management strategy. Over 60 chapters follow a standard, easy-to-read, quick access format on: clinical presentation, signs and symptoms, lab tests, imaging studies, differential diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, non-pharmacologic approach, interventional procedure, follow-up and prognosis. The broad spectrum of topics include headache, neck and back pain, bursitis, phantom limb pain, sickle cell disease and palliative care. Unlike other large, cumbersome texts currently available, this book serves as a quick, concise and pertinent reference in the diagnosis and management of common pain syndromes.Preface; Part I. Headache: 1. Migraine headache; 2. Cluster headache; 3. Tension headache; 4. Chronic daily headache; 5. Post-dural puncture headache; Part II. Head Pain: 6. Trigeminal neuralgia; 7. Temporomandibular joint syndrome and orofacial pain; 8. Occipital neuralgia; Part III. Neck and Shoulder: 9. Neck strain and sprain; 10. Cervical radiculopathy; 11. Cervical facet (zygapophyseal) joint syndrome; 12. Cervicobrachial pain syndrome, cervical dystonia and spastic torticollis; 13. Brachial plexopathy; 14. Thoracic outlet syndrome; 15. Shoulder arthritis; 16. Shoulder bursitis and tendinitis; 17. Rotator cuff tear; Part IV. Upper Limb: 18. Elbow DJD and elbow bursitis; 19. Tennis and Golfer's Elbow - lateral and medial epicondylitis; 20. Nerve entrapments at the elbow; 21. Hand and wrist arthritis; 22. Carpal tunnel syndrome; Part V. Thorax: 23. Costosternal, costochondritis, and costovertebral syndromes; 24. Intercostal neuralgia; 25. Post-thoracotomy, post-mastectomy, and post-cardiac surgery pain syndrome; 26. Thoracic spinal pain; Part VI. Abdomen and Pelvis: 27. Acute and chronic pancreatitis; 28. Functional abdominal pain; 29. Groin pain, ilioinguinal, iliohypogastric and genitofemoral neuralgia; 30. Coccydynia; 31. Interstitial cystitis; 32. Pelvic pain and endometriosis; Part VII. Spine: 33. Acute and chronic back pain, back strain and sprain; 34. Compression fracture; 35. Lumbar radiculopathy Jeffrey Loh; 36. Sciatica and piriformis syndrome; 37. Lumbar spinal stenosis; 38. Lumbar facet syndrome; 39. Sacroiliac pain; 40. Lumbar post-laminectomy pain syndrome Christine Lee and Talin Evazyan; Part VIII. Hip and Lower Limb: 41. Hip arthritis and bursitis pain; 42. Meralgia paresthetica; 43. Knee arthritis and bursitis pain; 44. Knee sprain and tendinitis; 45. Degenerative joint disease pain of the ankle, foot and toe; Part IX. Pain Syndromes and Special Topics: 46. Myofascial pain syndrome; 47. Fibromyalgia pain syndrome; 48. Pain in rheumatism; 49. Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia; 50. Complex regional pain syndrome I (RSD) and II (causalgia); 51. Painful polyneuropathy; 52. Pain in human immunodeficiency virus-related neuropathy; 53. Central pain and neurologic disorders; 54. Phantom limb pain; 55. Burn pain; 56. Acute postoperative pain management; 57. Pain during pregnancy and lactation; 58. Sickle cell disease; 59. Pain in critical care; 60. Pediatric pain; 61. Geriatric pain; 62. Cancer pain, palliative and end of life care (includes chemo-induced neuropathy and cancer-related bony pain); 63. Opioid tolerance, physical dependence and addiction; Index.