Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management (eBook)

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA

List of contributors, v

Preface, ix

List of abbreviations, xi

Part 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 1

1 Why evidence matters, 3

Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry

2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14

Alec B. O'Connor and Robert H. Dworkin

3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31

Eija Kalso

4 Neurobiology of pain, 42

Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson

5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is
an anecdote, 52

David B. Morris

6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological
interventions, 59

Christopher Eccleston

Part 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 69

7 Chronic low back pain, 71

Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes

8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83

Allan Binder

22 Headache, 279

Peer Tfelt-Hansen

23 Chest pain syndromes, 292

Austin Leach and Michael Chester

Part 3 Cancer pain, 309

24 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain, 311

Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto

25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics, 327

Rae Frances Bell

26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain, 337

Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy

27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture,
348

Mark I. Johnson

Part 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence, 367

28 Interventional therapies, 369

Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen

29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina, 400

Mats Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll and
Bengt Linderoth

30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain, 407

James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough
and Michael Schatman

31 Drug treatment of chronic pain, 424

Henry McQuay

32 Complementary therapies for pain relief, 434

Edzard Ernst

Index, 439

"Whether you are new to the field of nursing, or an experienced
practitioner, this book is an ideal resource ... This is an
important book for libraries." (Primary Health Care, 1 December
2011)