Principles and Practice of Pain Management

A resource covering all major approaches to pain, from pharmacologic and neurologic to behavioural and technologic, in reflection of increasing use of multi-disciplinary pain clinics. It covers the basic science of pain in addition to clinical diagnosis and therapeutics.

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A comprehensive - one-stop resource covering the field of pain medicine in about 1000 printed pages. Truly inter-disciplinary, with coverage of all major approaches to pain, from pharmacologic and neurologic to behavioural and technologic, in reflection of increasing use of multi-disciplinary pain clinics. Includes coverage of the basic science of pain in addition to clinical diagnosis and therapeutics, so readers have access to the important anatomical, physiological, and molecular basis of pain. Each chapter has been contributed by a leading national authority, giving readers trustworthy, accurate, updated information from the best clinicians in the field. Diagnosis section provides the latest developments and technology in pain medicine, including electrodiagnostic approaches and functional MRI. Includes a section on behavioural aspects of pain, with multiple chapters addressing this increasingly important and utilized aspect of pain medicine. Also includes chapters on legal, ethical, and practical aspects of running a pain medicine clinic, so readers learn how to "set up shop". This section helps define the book as a reference-text for the specialty of pain medicine.