Pocket Guide Pain Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spies, Claudia (Editor), Schug, Stephan A. (Editor), Jaehnichen, Gunnar (Editor), Harper, Sarah (Editor), Rehberg, Benno (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

In the United States about 50 million people sufer from recurrent or chronic pain, and nearly 10% of adults take medication for pain daily. Further, the disease burden of pain is expected to grow, relative to other illnesses and conditions. Despite the advances in pain medicine, most physicians are...

Table of Contents:

• General principles of pain therapy. Pain evaluation. Pain documentation. Psychological pain therapy
• Headache. Migraine. Tension-type headache (TTH). Persistent idiopathic facial pain. Cluster headache. Medication-overuse headache (MOH). Trigeminal neuralgia
• Back pain. Radicular root irritation syndrome. Pseudoradicular root irritation syndrome. Fibromyalgia. Osteoporosis
• Neuropathic pain. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Phantom pain. Post-herpetic neuralgia
• Cancer pain
• Postoperative pain. Nurse-controlled analgesia (NCA). Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). Epidural analgesia (EDA). Continuous peripheral nerve analgesia.