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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stannard, Catherine F
• Kalso, Eija,
• Ballantyne, Jane,

Titel

Evidence-based chronic pain management [electronic resource]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part 1 Understanding evidence and pain; 1 Why evidence matters; 2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments; 3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence; 4 Neurobiology of pain; 5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote; 6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological interventions; Part 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence; 7 Chronic low back pain; 8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash; 9 Pain associated with osteo-arthritis; 10 Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis
• 11 Fibromyalgia12 Facial pain; 13 Pelvic and perineal pain in women; 14 Perineal pain in males; 15 Pain from abdominal organs; 16 Postsurgical pain syndromes; 17 Painful diabetic neuropathy; 18 Postherpetic neuralgia; 19 Phantom limb pain; 20 Complex regional pain syndrome; 21 Central pain syndromes; 22 Headache; 23 Chest pain syndromes; Part 3 Cancer pain; 24 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain; 25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics; 26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain; 27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture; Part 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence
• 28 Interventional therapies29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina; 30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain; 31 Drug treatment of chronic pain; 32 Complementary therapies for pain relief; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient sufferingAnswers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be usedIncludes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalentWritten by the world's leading exper
• English