Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management is a genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions. Features:

• 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 seminal text in the field of pain

Contents

Section I: Understanding chronic pain and evidence

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 pain

Section II: Chronic pain syndromes

7. Low back pain
8. Neck pain
9. Pain associated with osteoarthritis
10. Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis
11. Fibromyalgia
12. Facial pain
13. Chronic pelvic and perineal pain in women
14. Pelvic and perineal pain in males
15. Pain from abdominal viscera
16. Post-surgical pain syndromes
17. Painful diabetic neuropathy
18. Phantom limb pain
19. Complex regional pain syndrome
20. Central pain syndromes
21. Headache
22. Chest pain syndromes

Section III: Cancer pain management

23. Oncological treatments for cancer pain
24. Analgesics and co-analgesics in cancer pain
25. TENS and acupuncture for cancer pain
26. Psychological interventions for cancer pain

Section IV: Chronic pain therapies

27. Interventional therapies
28. Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain

Index

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