Pain in Women A Clinical Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bailey, Allison (Editor), Bernstein, Carolyn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.

Women are affected by many chronic pain conditions in overwhelmingly greater numbers than are men. They are also at higher risk of disability due to pain in all age groups.   Addressing this problem with a comprehensive and practical examination of the problem, Pain in Women: A Clinical Guide is an...

Table of Contents:

• Sex Differences In Pain
• Neuroanatomy of Public Pain
• Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia
• Chronic Pevic Pain
• Chronic Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction
• Vulvodynia.-Cystitis and Painful Bladder Syndrome
• Headache in Women.- Pregnancy and Post-Partum Pain.- The Female Athlete
• Immune Consequences of ELS
• Menopause and the Musculoskeletal System
• Breast Cancer
• Physical Therapy.