Pain Management Yearbook 2013

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; Pain control after total knee arthroplasty in continuous femoral nerve infusion group versus single shot group; Comparing the non-communicating adult pain checklist (NCAPC) with the pain & discomfort scale (PADS) in evaluating pain in adults with intellectual disability; Chasing the ghosts: The impact of diagnostic labelling on self-management & pain-related guilt in chronic low back pain patients; Comparison of baseline quality of life scores in patients with bone & brain metastases as assessed using the EORTC QLQ-C30; Asymptomatic presentation of lung & bone metastases in a patient with breast cancer; Prophylaxis with radiation treatment after surgery to the cervical spine for established heterotopic ossification; Good surgical outcome & long survival in a patient with occipitocervical instability requiring occiput to C3 fixation; Peer mentorship teaches social tools for pain self-management: A case study; Pain relief through palliative radiation therapy in a patient with cervical spine bone metastases; Single fraction palliative radiation treatment in the treatment of bone metastases with soft tissue mass; Palliative radiotherapy in the treatment of lung metastases or advanced lung cancer; Radiation therapy alone for established heterotopic ossification; Urinary symptoms in patients with low back pain; Relationship of chronic low back pain & erectile dysfunction; The effect of Stanford-type self-management programmes on pain & function in older people with persistent pain: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials; Review of brain metastases research in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (RRRP); Natalie Pulenzas, Breanne Lechner, Nemica Thavarajah & Edward Chow; Barriers to prescription of sublingual fentanyl tablets for breakthrough cancer pain in an outpatient cancer center; Mother-child concordance for pain location in a pediatric chronic pain sample; The influence of music on temporal perception & pain in a dental clinic; Comparison of baseline quality of life scores in patients with bone & brain metastases as Assessed using the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL; Pediatric pain assessment: A pragmatic analysis of dialogues in the interactions of healthcare providers, children & their parents; Focal myositis as a presentation of paraneoplastic syndrome in pancreatic cancer; Review of symptom cluster research in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (RRRP); Review of radiation induced nausea & vomiting research in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program; Review of bone metastases research in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (RRRP); Surgery for pelvic pain in endometriosis; Mindfulness training does not reduce generalized hyperalgesia in chronic tension-type headache; The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Brain (FACT-Br) for assessing quality of life in patients with brain metastases: A comparison of recall periods; Mindfulness training does not reduce inflammatory cytokine levels in chronic tension-type headache; Avascular necrosis of the femoral head in metastatic breast cancer; Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from melanoma: A case report; Muscular metastases arising from squamous cell carcinoma of the lung; Extrapulmonary tuberculosis mimicking widespread metastatic disease: A case report; Opioid-induced hyperalgesia & monotherapy intrathecal ziconotide: Experience with four cases; Instruments to measure acute pain: An integrative review; Pain management in endodontics; Occlusal splint treatment in temporomandibular disorder; Symptom clusters analysis in bone metastases patients using the European Organization for Research & Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Bone Metastases Module (EORTC QLQ-BM22); Spinal cord compression as a first presentation of cancer: A case report; Particle disease versus bone metastases; Radiotherapy for a cervix cancer patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: A case report; Pathological fracture from metastatic bone disease of an unknown primary cancer; Palliative radiotherapy for brain & bone metastases from a papillary thyroid carcinoma; Index.