Pain Management proposes evidence-based alternatives to current options in pain management, using well-grounded rationales for each given treatment.

Pain Management features:

• Pharmacological alternatives for pain management
• Evidence-based approach
• Treatment algorithms

Contents

1. Conventional Pain Treatment
2. Using Drugs Outside Their Licensed Indication
3. Topical Nitrates
4. Topical Tricyclic Antidepressants
5. Topical Opioids
6. Topical Local Anesthetics
7. Topical Glutamate Receptor Antagonists
8. Topical, Oral, and Perineural
   -Adrenoreceptor Agonists
9. Lamotrigine
10. 5HT₃ Antagonists
11. Cholecystokinin Antagonists
12. Parenteral Anti-epileptics
13. Intravenous Lidocaine
14. L-Carnitine
15. Other Pharmacological Options (Botulinum, Cimetidine, Glucosamine)
16. Neuropathic Pain
17. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
18. Joint Pain
19. Fracture Pain
20. Postoperative Pain
21. Fibromyalgia
22. Muscle Spasm and Pain
23. Tendinopathies
24. Low Back Pain
25. Cancer Pain

Index

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