Main description:

This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows. Acting as both an introduction and continued reference for various levels of training, this guide provides practitioners with up-to-date academic standards. In order to comprehensively meet the need for such a contemporary text-treatment options, types of pain management, and variables affecting specific conditions are thoroughly examined across 48 chapters. Categories of pain conditions include orofacial, neuropathic, visceral, neck, acute, muscle and myofascial, chronic urogenital and pelvic, acute, and regional. Written by renowned experts in the field, each chapter is supplemented with high-quality color figures, tables and images that provide the reader with a fully immersive educational experience.

Academic Pain Medicine: A Practical Guide to Rotations, Fellowship, and Beyond is an unprecedented contribution to the literature that addresses the wide-spread requisite for a practical guide to pain medicine within the academic environment.

Contents:

Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission

Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation

Development of Pain Systems

Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies about Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine

Animal Models of Pain and Ethics of Animal Experimentation

Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research

Assessment and Psychology of Pain

Placebo and Pain

Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging

Epidemiology

Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain

Sex and Gender Issues in Pain

Treatment of Pain: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse effects, drug interactions, and indications/contraindications

Psychological Treatments

Psychiatric Treatment

Stimulation-Produced Analgesia

Interventional Pain Management

Surgical Pain Management

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Taxonomy of Pain Systems

Acute Pain

Neck Pain

Lumbar Radicular Pain

Low Back Pain

Musculoskeletal Pain

Muscle and Myofascial Pain