Pain

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)

Preface; Introduction; Pain; The Underlying Framework of How an Acute Pain Score Is Determined: An Interpretive Description; Characterizing the Role of Haloperidol for Analgesia in the Emergency Department; Short and Long Term Efficacy of Ultrasound Guided Sacroiliac Joint Injections When Combined with Physical Examination and Point of Maximal Tenderness; Psychological Coping Strategies among Post-Surgery Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Patients: Predictive Values on Pain and Functioning Outcomes; Effectiveness and Safety of Epidural Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Management after Vascular Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort; When Physiotherapy Is Not Enough: A Concise Questionnaire to Predict the Need for Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Pain; Rebound Pain after Shoulder Surgery with Interscalene Brachial Plexus Blockade: How Often, How Bad?; Clinicians Knowledge in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Search and Critical Review of Existing Questionnaires; Spiritual and Existential Factors Predict Pain Relief in a Pain Management Program with a Meaning-Based Component; Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Patients with Chronic Temporomandibular Joint Disorders: A Case Series; Pain Management in Older Adults with Dementia: A Selective Review; Influence of Isometric Exercise on Pressure Pain Sensitivity in Knee Osteoarthritis; Person-Centred Management of Chronic Intractable Pain: An Observational Study Comparing Conventional Treatment with Hypnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Comorbidity; Beliefs Coping and Chronic Low-Back Pain: When Praying Did Not Prevent Pain and Disability!; A Study on the Prevalence of Shoulder Pain in People with Diabetes Mellitus; Under-Treatment of Depression in a Chronic Pain Management Clinic; Effects of Sustained Soft Tissue Compression Therapy on Pain and Swelling among Patients with Chikungunya in Dhaka City of Bangladesh; Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Sacroiliac Joint Arthropathy: A Prospective, Single Center, Randomized Controlled Trial; About the Editors; About the Center for Children with Chronic Diseases and Down Syndrome Center Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Mt Scopus Campus, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Index.