Integrative Pain Management

Integrative Pain Management provides an overview of pain physiology, current conventional care options, an understanding of integrative medicine as it applies to pain management, the role of pain practitioners when working collaboratively, and the utilization of an expansive and patient-centered treatment model. This comprehensive guide written by experts in the field provides case examples of pain conditions, reviews common integrative treatments including physical therapy, behavioral strategies, and advanced procedures to maximize function and reduce pain, and extensive further reading resources. Part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, this volume offers clinicians treating pain innovative and patient-centered tools for approaching their most difficult cases to improve their approach and outcomes. The book provides access to additional online content that supplements some of the integrative interventions discussed including videos of tai chi in pain management, a demonstration of motivational interviewing as practitioner empowerment, and figures including the STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) for spine care. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative. Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is "to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically." This comprehensive book is a milestone not only in [Dr. Sukiennik's] personal journey but also for the field [of integrative pain medicine] at large. It brings the intellectual imprimatur of Oxford University Press to the field of integrative medicine, that is rapidly adopting current standards of evidence-based practice. This volume, with contributions from many of [Dr. Sukiennik's] clinical colleagues at Tufts together with other national and international authorities, is a comprehensive source of up-to-the-minute information on all important modalities now employed in the practice of integrative pain medicine. Daniel B. Carr, MD, DABPM, FFPMANZCA (Hon) Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine Founding Director, Program on Pain Research, Education and Policy Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts