Bonica's management of pain / / editors, Scott M. Fishman, Jane C. Ballantyne, James P. Rathmell.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fishman, Scott, 1959-; Ballantyne, Jane, 1948-; Rathmell, James P.; Bonica, John J., 1917-1994.
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, MD : : Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Fourth edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1695 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

Table of Contents

Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --

Cancer-related bone pain -- Cancer-related visceral pain -- Radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer pain management -- Cancer pain in children -- Acute pain management in children -- Acute pain in adults -- Regional anesthesia techniques for acute pain management -- Burn pain -- Persistent pain in children -- Pain in the older person -- Obsteric pain -- Pain and sickle cell disease -- Pain in human immunodeficiency virus disease -- The treatment of chronic pain in patients with history of substance abuse -- Compliance monitoring in chronic pain management -- Headache -- Noncardiac chest pain -- Abdominal, peritoneal, and retroperitoneal pain -- Pelvic pain in females -- Pelvic pain in males -- Cranial neuralgias -- Facial pain -- Neck and arm pain -- Chest wall pain -- Lower extremity pain -- Acute low back pain -- Chronic low back pain -- Surgery for low back pain -- Failed back surgery syndrome -- Psychological screening of spine surgery candidates -- Rational pharmacotherapy for pain -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen -- Opioid analgesics -- Skeletal muscle relaxants and analgesic balms -- Neuropathic pain pharmacotherapy -- Anger and pain -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain -- Pain and anxiety and depression -- Hypnosis -- Relaxation and imagery techniques -- Group therapy for chronic pain -- Motivating pain patients for behavioral change -- Basic concepts in biomechanics and musculoskeletal rehabilitation -- Pain rehabilitation -- Assessment and treatment of chemical dependency -- Physical therapy agents -- Exercise therapy for low back pain -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Peripheral nerve stimulation -- Spinal cord stimulation -- Motor cortex and deep brain stimulation -- Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks -- Epidural steroid injections -- Intrathecal drug delivery in the management of pain -- Intradiscal therapies for low back pain -- Neurolytic blockade for noncancer pain -- Surgery of the peripheral nervous system as a treatment for pain -- The surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia -- Ablative neurosurgical procedures for chronic pain -- Interdisciplinary chronic pain management: perspectives on history, current status, and future viability -- Spine clinics -- Pain management in primary care -- Pain management at the end of life -- Training pain specialists -- Emergencies in the pain clinic -- Pain management in the emergency department -- Pain management in the intensive care unit -- The future of pain medicine: an epilogue.