Main description:

Integrative Pain Management provides an overview of pain physiology, current conventional care options, an understanding of integrative medicine as it applies to pain management, the role of pain practitioners when working collaboratively, and the utilization of an expansive and patient-centered treatment model. This comprehensive guide written by experts in the field provides case examples of pain conditions, reviews common integrative treatments including
physical therapy, behavioral strategies, and advanced procedures to maximize function and reduce pain, and extensive further reading resources. Part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, this volume offers clinicians treating pain innovative and patient-centered tools for approaching their most difficult
cases to improve their approach and outcomes. The book provides access to additional online content that supplements some of the integrative interventions discussed including videos of tai chi in pain management, a demonstration of motivational interviewing as practitioner empowerment, and figures including the STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) for spine care. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as
all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative. Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was
the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is "to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically."

Contents:

I Pain and Integrative Medicine: Impact and Considerations
1. Transforming the Burden of Pain: Integrative Understanding and Treatment
2. Integrative Pain Management: Transforming the Paradigm of Care
3. Integrative Medicine: The Treatment of Choice for Pain Management
4. Policy Advocacy for Integrative Pain Management: Getting to Perfect Alignment
5. The Evolving Economics of Integrative Pain Management

II Current Understanding and Treatment of Pain
6. Central Sensitization Syndrome: The Role of Microgliain Chronic Pain and Depression
7. Central Pain States: A Shift in Thinking About Chronic Pain
8. Psychosocial Mediators of Chronic Pain
9. Neuropathy and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
10. Pain Physiology and Neuroblockade

III Integrative Evaluation and Considerations
11. Chronic Pain: A Template for Biopsychosocial Assessment
12. Measuring Pain: An Overview of Assessment Tools
13. The Clinician as Intervention: Motivational Interviewing and Practitioner Empowerment
14. Sleep, Depression, and Psychological Comorbidities in Pain Management
15. Obesity-Related Pain: Improving Pain Through Metabolic Health
16. Managing Chronic Noncancer Pain in the Primary Care Setting
17. Self-care for Optimizing Pain Management
18. Empowerment Group Visits as a Treatment for Chronic Pain

IV Integrative Therapies and Systems for Pain Management
19. Diet and Pain
20. Non-Herbal Dietary Supplement and Nutrients in Pain Management
21. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Inflammatory Processes and Rheumatoid Arthritis
22. Herbal Medicine
23. Hormones and Pain
24. Regenerative Injection Therapies for Pain: Traditional, Platelet Rich Plasma and Biocellular Prolotherapy
25. Mindfulness-Based Stress Management and Chronic Pain
26. Biofeedback for Chronic Pain
27. Hypnosis for Chronic Pain
28. Guided Imagery: A Multi-Purpose Technique for Helping People in Pain
29. Yoga for Pain Management
30. Tai Chi in Pain Management
31. Exercise and Movement for Pain
32. Physical Therapy: Evaluation and Incorporation of Treatments
33. Electroanalgesia in Pain Management: Focus on Sciatica
34. Manual Medicine and Manipulative Techniques
35. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
36. Auricular Therapy
37. The Role of the Naturopathic Physician
38. An Ayurvedic Approach to Chronic Pain with Stress
39. Energetic Medicine and Pain Management

V Integrative Approaches to Condition Management
40. Integrative Case Management: The Importance of Collaboration and The Project ECHO Example
41. Integrative Headache Management
42. Integrative Spine Care: A Pathway Approach for Optimizing Results
43. Facial Pain
44. Chronic Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
45. Integrative Approaches to Fibromyalgia
46. Integrative Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
47. Myofascial Pain Syndrome: The Team Approach
48. Chronic Pelvic Pain
49. Cancer Related Pain: An Overview
50. Cancer Related Pain: Integrative Treatments
51. Integrative Pain Management in the Military Setting
52. Procedural and Acute Pain in Children
53. Chronic Pediatric Pain
54. Pain and Addiction: The Role of Primary Care as the Center of Treatment
55. Pain and the Older Adult
56. An Integrative Approach to Pain at the End of Life