ABSTRACT

Key Topics in Chronic Pain is designed to help the professional understand the working of the chronic pain clinic, its patients and its treatments. Separate chapters describe the various clinical pain syndromes commonly encountered and their management. Emphasis is placed on the management of conditions as recommended by randomised controlled trial

chapter |5 pages

INTRODUCTION—WHAT IS THE PAIN CLINIC?

Andrew Severn, Kate Grady

chapter |5 pages

Assessment of evidence—Evidence in decision-makinga

Andrew Smith

part |2 pages

ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE— EXPRESSING AND INTERPRETING THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH

chapter |3 pages

Assessment of chronic pain—History

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

chapter |6 pages

Assessment of chronic pain—Examination

Kate Grady, Paul Eldridge

chapter |4 pages

Assessment of chronic pain—Psychosocialb

Andrew Severn, Barrie Tait

chapter |7 pages

Back pain—Medical managementb

Barrie Tait, Andrew Severn

chapter |5 pages

Back pain—Injectionsb

Andrew Severn, Barrie Tait

chapter |8 pages

Back pain—Surgery 52

Paul Eldridge

chapter |3 pages

BURNS

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

chapter |5 pages

CANCER—INTRATHECAL AND EPIDURAL INFUSIONS

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

CANCER—NERVE BLOCKS

Andrew Severn

chapter |5 pages

CANCER—OPIOID DRUGS

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

CANCER—OTHER DRUGS

Kate Grady

chapter |5 pages

CHEST PAIN

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

chapter |6 pages

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES

Andrew Severn, Kate Grady

chapter |4 pages

DEPRESSION AND PAIN

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

chapter |4 pages

Facial pain 90

Andrew Severn, Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN

Andrew Severn

chapter |8 pages

HEADACHE

Andrew Severn, Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE AND PAIN

Kate Grady

chapter |5 pages

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Kate Grady

chapter |5 pages

Musculoskeletal pain syndromesb

Barrie Tait, Andrew Severn

chapter |6 pages

NECK PAIN

Andrew Severn, Paul Eldridge

chapter |4 pages

NEURALGIA AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY

Kate Grady

chapter |7 pages

NEURALGIA—TRIGEMINAL AND GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL

Paul Eldridge

chapter |5 pages

NEUROPATHIC PAIN—AN OVERVIEW

Andrew Severn

chapter |5 pages

NOCICEPTIVE PAIN—AN OVERVIEW

Andrew Severn

part |2 pages

OSTEOARTHRITIS

chapter |3 pages

OSTEOPOROSIS

Kate Grady

chapter |6 pages

PELVIC AND VULVAL PAIN

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

chapter |4 pages

Post-amputation pain

Kate Grady

chapter |4 pages

Post-herpetic neuralgia

Kate Grady

chapter |8 pages

PREGNANCY

Kate Grady

chapter |6 pages

Scars, neuromata, post-surgical pain

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

SPINAL CORD INJURY

Andrew Severn, Paul Eldridge

chapter |3 pages

STROKE

Andrew Severn, Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND PAIN

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

part |2 pages

THERAPY—ANTIARRHYTHMICS

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—ANTICONVULSANTS

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—ANTIDEPRESSANTS

Kate Grady

chapter |4 pages

THERAPY—ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—BOTULINUM TOXIN

Kate Grady

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—CANNABINOIDS

Kate Grady, Andrew Severn

part |2 pages

THERAPY—CAPSAICIN

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—KETAMINE AND OTHER NMDA ANTAGONISTS

Kate Grady

chapter |4 pages

THERAPY—NERVE BLOCKS: AUTONOMIC

Andrew Severn

chapter |4 pages

THERAPY—NERVE BLOCKS: SOMATIC AND LESION TECHNIQUES

Andrew Severn

chapter |7 pages

THERAPY—NEUROSURGICAL TECHNIQUES

Paul Eldridge

chapter |5 pages

Therapy—Opioids in chronic painb

Andrew Severn, Barrie Tait

chapter |3 pages

Therapy—Physicalb

Barrie Tait

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY—PSYCHOLOGICAL

Andrew Severn

chapter |10 pages

Therapy—Spinalcord and brain stimulation

Paul Eldridge

chapter |5 pages

THERAPY—TENS, ACUPUNCTURE AND LASER STIMULATION

Kate Grady