Main description:

Handbook of Pain Management in Practice provides an overview of pain management, including acute and chronic pain, and the principles of treatment. The book is a reference tool for the evaluation of pain and also provides practical information regarding diagnosis and treatment of disorders causing pain.

Divided into 21 chapters, the book begins with the basics of pain, assessment of the patient, and pharmacotherapy of pain. Further chapters discuss specific types of pain, including headache, back ache, abdominal pain and cancer pain. Each chapter provides treatment guidelines based on symptoms. Concluding chapters feature discussion on emergencies in pain practice, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and interventions in pain management practice.

38 images and 24 tables enhance the text in this practical resource for GPs, internists, students and teachers.

Key Points

Overview of pain management covering a range of pain symptoms
Other topics include emergencies, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and interventions
62 images and tables

Contents:

Basics of Pain
Assessment of a Patient with Pain
Pharmacotherapy of Pain
Radiological Assessment of a Patient in Pain
Acute Pain
Headache
Facial Pain
Backache
Abdominal Pain
Chronic Pelvic Pain
Myofascial Pain
Musculoskeletal Pain
Arthritis
Neuropathic Pain
Cancer Pain
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Emergencies in Pain Practice
Pediatric Pain Management
Osteoporosis
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Interventions in Pain Management Practice

Index