Stannard Catherine F., Kalso E., Ballantyne J. (eds.) Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2010. — 455 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-15291-4A 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 suffering. Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, and those which are not effective yet continue to be used. Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent. Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a.Understanding evidence and pain
Why evidence matters
Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments
Introduction to evaluation of evidence
Neurobiology of pain
Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote
Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological interventions
Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence
Chronic low back pain
Chronic neck pain and whiplash
Headache
Chest pain syndromes
Cancer pain
Oncologic therapy in cancer pain
Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics
Psychologic interventions for cancer pain
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture
Treatment modalities: the evidence
Interventional therapies
Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina
Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain
Drug treatment of chronic pain
Complementary therapies for pain relief