ABSTRACT

Chronic pain places a tremendous burden on both the patient and the healthcare system.  The use of opioids to address pain has resulted in negative impacts. As practitioners work to undo the current opioid crisis, options to manage pain need a new approach. Advanced Therapeutics in Pain Medicine offers pioneering approaches to this intransigent problem providing a functional medicine approach toward treating pain.

This book is dedicated to the advancement of non-opioid therapeutic options that offer real progress in reaching a future of better pain management. With an emphasis on pathophysiology, chapters review various types of pain and propose comprehensive treatment plans. These include manual therapies, novel pharmacologic and plant-based approaches, hormonal effects on pain pathways, as well as psychological and lifestyle interventions.

Features

·       Written by a multi-discplinary team, the book provides clinicians with multiple non-opioid treatment considerations.

·       Enables practitioners to shift from a “one size fits all’ treatment approach toward individualized patient care.

·       Includes case studies to help educate the provider on how to implement treatment plans in practice.

Written by a team of physicians, pharmacists, psychologists and researchers, this important book offers a much needed step forward in optimizing pain care and benefits practitioners who care for patients experiencing chronic pain.

 

chapter 3|10 pages

The Opioid Epidemic

chapter 5|12 pages

Sex Hormones and Pain Control

chapter 7|22 pages

Fibromyalgia

A Comprehensive Perspective

chapter 8|18 pages

A Functional Approach to Gynecologic Pain

Integrative Gynecology for the Non-Gynecologist

chapter 9|24 pages

Headache Disorders

chapter 10|16 pages

Biotensegrity

Advancing Pain Diagnosis and Treatment by Rethinking Anatomy and Biomechanics

chapter 12|12 pages

Mycotoxins and Tick-Borne Disease

Increasingly Common Causes of Unexplained Chronic Pain

chapter 14|12 pages

Adenine Dinucleotide

Past, Present, and Future

chapter 17|16 pages

Low-Dose Naltrexone

Immune and Inflammatory Mediator Extraordinaire

chapter 20|8 pages

Pea

A Novel Fatty Acid in the Treatment of Pain

chapter 25|12 pages

Psychological Intervention

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy