Key Topics in Chronic Pain, Second Edition

Introduction - evidence-based medicine in pain management; Assessment of chronic pain - history; Assessment of chronic pain - physical; Assessment of chronic pain - psychosocial; Back pain - assessment and medical management; Back pain - injections; Benign nociceptive pain - drug treatments; Botulinum toxin - haemagglutinin complex; Cancer - intrathecal and epidural infusions; Cancer - nerve blocks; Cancer - non-opioid drugs; Cancer - opioid drugs; Cancer pain - mechanisms and pathology; Cannabinoids; Central post-stroke pain; Complex regional pain syndromes 1 and 2; Conduct of the pain clinic; Depression and pain; Digestive tract syndromes; Facial pain; Headache; Immunodeficiency disease and pain; Ketamine; Mechanisms in nociception; Mechanisms in peripheral and central neuropathic pain; Migraine; Multiple sclerosis; Musculoskeletal pain syndromes; Neck pain; Nerve blocks - autonomic; Nerve blocks - somatic; Neuromata and post-incisional pain; Neuropathic pain - drug treatments; Neurosurgery and Pain; Osteoporosis - generalized adult; Pelvic (gynaecological) and urinary tract pain; Peripheral neuropathies and neuralgias; Post-amputation pain; Post-herpetic neuralgia; Psychological management of chronic pain; Spinal cord injury and pain; Stimulation analgesia - spinal cord, deep brain and motor cortex stimulation; Stimulation analgesia - TENS, TSE and acupuncture; Sympathetic nervous system and pain; Trigeminal neuralgia; Glossary; Index