Pain Management Yearbook 2011

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program & Multidisciplinary Bone Metastases Clinic; Conventional Radiation Treatment & Bone Metastases; Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Spine Tumors; Management of Malignant Spinal Cord Compression; Defining Oncologic Spinal Instability; Vertebral Compression Fractures from Spinal Metastases: Imaging & Application of Kyphoplasty & Vertebroplasty; Less Invasive Surgical Approaches for Spine Metastases; Evaluation of Photodynamic Therapy as Treatment for Spinal Metastases; Bisphosphonates in the Management of Bone Metastases; Spinal Cord Tolerance to Radiation; Bone Metastases & Pain Flare; Bone Metastases & Quality of Life; Treatment of Brain Metastases: Striving to Improve Patient Outcomes; Radiosensitizers & Anti-Angiogenic Agents for Brain Metastases; Role of Surgery & Awake Craniotomy for Brain Metastasis; Quantification of Metastatic Burden in the Spine & its Structural Implications; Palliative Radiation Therapy: Cone Beam CT Imaging in Radiation Oncology; Advanced CT & MR Imaging of Brain Metastases; Brain Metastasis: Gamma Knife Technology for Radiosurgery; Targeting TRPV1 for Pain Relief: Should we Quench or Reignite the Fire?; Allodynia & Neuronal Plasticity; Spinal Cord Neural Plasticity in Chronic Pain & its Clinical Implication; Plasticity in Chronic Pain Syndromes: The Role of Neuroimaging; Sensorimotor Training & its Implication on Cortical Reorganization; Cortical Reorganization, Mental Imagery & Pain; Functional & Structural Cortical Neuroplasticity in Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain; Neuroplasticity in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; Systematic Review of Data from Randomized Controlled Trials on the Efficacy, Safety & Tolerability of Drugs Used to Treat Painful Diabetic Neuropathy; Dedicated Out-Patient Palliative Radiation Treatment Clinics for Patients with Advanced Cancer; Life Mission Theory X: Theory of Humiliation & Pain; Parental Experiences of Pediatric Chronic Pain Management Services; An Audit on Postoperative Pain in Liver Resection Surgery Following Epidural Catheter Removal; A Novel Technique for Reducing & Eliminating Peripheral Neuropathic Pain: A Clinical Study; The Relationship between Narcotic Administration & Emergency Department Recidivism; Total Pain Concept: Multisensory Stimulation, Exercise Therapy & Coping Skill Training for Community-Dwelling Older Persons with Chronic Pain; What is the Role of Decision Making & Patient Choice on Chronic Pain Patients Psychological Well-Being during a Residential Chronic Pain Management Programme?; Correlation of the Palliative Performance Scale with the Karnofsky Performance Status in an Outpatient Palliative Radiotherapy Clinic; Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Acute Pain; Oxycodone or Oxycodone Plus Paracetamol for Acute Postoperative Pain in Adults; Oral Paracetamol (acetaminophen) with Codeine for Postoperative Pain in Adults; Transcutaneous Electrostimulation for Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Renal Mass Primary or Metastatic? The Search for a Definitive Diagnosis; Asymptomatic 20cm-long Femoral Metastasis. A Unique Case of Long-Bone Disease Responding to Radiotherapy Alone; Painful Sacral Insufficiency Fracture Simulating Metastatic Disease from Primary Breast Cancer; Suspicious Perianal Lesion in a Patient with Renal Cell Carcinoma; Pathological Fracture of the Tibia in a Patient with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast: A Case Report of a Rare Finding; Index.