Main description:

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked.

Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and
logical in its layout, Pain is the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go.

Contents:

SECTION I CHRONIC PAIN CONDITIONS ; 1. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ; 2. Peripheral Neuropathy ; 3. Post-Herpetic Neuralgia ; 4. Post-Stroke Central Pain ; 5. Multiple Sclerosis Related Pain ; 6. Radiculopathy ; 7. Brachial Plexus Injury ; 8. Superficial Radial Nerve Injury ; 9. Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome (Acute and Chronic Pain) ; 10. Dental Pain ; 11. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Atypical Facial Pain ; 12. Phantom Pain ; 13. Spinal Cord Injury Pain ; 14. Ramsey Hunt Syndrome (Geniculate Neuralgia) ; 15. Supraorbital Neuralgia ; 16. Glossopharngeal Neuralgia ; 17. Arachnoiditis ; 18. Occipital Neuralgia ; 19. Cancer-Related Pain ; 20. Mononeuropathy ; SECTION II CHRONIC PAIN AND RELATED DISORDERS ; 21. Chronic Pain and Depression ; 22. Chronic Pain and Addictive Disorder ; 23. Chronic Pain and Other Psychiatric Disorders ; 24. The Difficult Chronic Pain Patient ; SECTION III TREATMENT OVERVIEW ; 25. Antidepressants ; 26. Anticonvulsants ; 27. Opioids ; 28. Other Adjuvant Drugs ; 29. Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation ; 30. Neurosurgical Procedures for Pain ; 31. Medical Cannabis