The Handbook of Chronic Pain

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Nova Publishers, 2007 - 600 páginas
The objective of this new book is to promote and enable closer cooperation between different health professionals in treating pain, by introducing psychosocially oriented team members to the medical aspects of pain, and medically oriented team members to the psychosocial aspects. The structure of the book completely mirrors this objective. The book has nine parts, arranged according to a balanced plan. Parts I and II deal with theoretical (basic science) approaches to pain, whereby Part I focuses on the medical approaches and Part II on the psychosocial ones. Part III is devoted to pain evaluation and assessment, whereby chapter 9 deals with the medical aspects, chapter 10 with the psychophysiological and psychiatric aspects, and chapter 11 with the psychological psychometric approach, describing different commonly used questionnaires for assessing various aspects of pain. Parts IV to Part VII are devoted to treatment of pain. Part IV focuses on medical treatments, Part V on psychological treatments, Part VI on palliative approaches, and Part VII on complementary approaches (mainly those supported by enough research and evidence). Part VIII focuses on particular pain syndromes, those that are most frequent in the practice of pain, emphasizing both medical and psychological aspects in each chapter. Finally, Part IX deals with the practice of treating pain - in chapter 29 with the facilities and pain centers, namely, the locations where the integration of the described approaches to pain is expected to take place, and in chapter 30 with the problems of the health professional that treats pain.
 

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Anatomical and Physiological Bases of Nociception
3
Biochemical Basis of Nociception Roles of Cytokines
25
Taxonomy and Classification of Pain
41
Chronic Non Cancer Pain
57
Psychological and Psychosocial Considerations
75
Quality of Life and Coping in Chronic Pain Patients
77
Patient and Family in the Context of Chronic Pain
101
Psychological and Psychopathological Characteristics of Patients with Pain
115
Psychological Approaches to Treatment of Pain Sensory Affective Cognitive and Behavioral
299
Psychological Approaches to Pain Management Behavioral Modification
323
Hypnosis in the Management of Chronic Pain Conditions and the Acute Pain Accompanying their Treatment
335
Nursing and Palliative Approaches
359
Chronic Pain A Nursing Perspective
361
Palliative Care
379
Physical and Complementary Approaches
399
Use of Electricity and Other Physical Agents For Chronic Pain Relief¹²³
401

The Anthropology of Pain
135
Pain Evaluation
143
The Medical Evaluation of Pain
145
The Psychophysiological Evaluation of Chronic Pain
153
Psychological Evaluation of the Chronic Pain Patient
165
Medical Therapeutic Approaches
183
Pharmacological Therapy of Pain Connection Between Theory and Practice
185
Common Nerve Blocks Used in Pain Medicine
207
The Neurosurgical Approach to Chronic Pain
229
Implantable Devices and Drug Delivery Systems
247
Radiation Therapy Pain of Malignant and NonMalignant Origin
273
Psychosocial Therapeutic Approaches
297
Herbal Therapy for Pain Control
423
Particular Pain Syndromes Medical and Psychological Aspects
431
Headache
433
Low Back Pain
465
Perineal and Pelvic Pain
489
Rheumatic Pain
501
Pain and Suffering in Cancer
533
Organization of a Pain Service
551
Pain Treatment Facilities Terminology and Characteristics
553
Burnout and Other Problems of the Health Professional Treating Pain
561
Index
567
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