Pain Medicine. an Interdisciplinary Case-Based Approach

Description

• This is the first book to bring together the four main disciplines in managing pain: anesthesiology, neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and psychiatry
• Each chapter is centered on a clinical vignette that mimics a typical pain case presentation
• The epidemiology, pathophysiology, prognosis, and confounding psychosocial factors of each disease entity is presented followed by interdisciplinary management approaches

Pain Medicine approaches the management of common chronic pain conditions using a unique interdisciplinary approach focusing on multiple facets of patients' clinical presentations. The comprehensive discussions in each chapter are centered on a vignette that mimics a fairly typical case presentation. In addition to detailed classical descriptions of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prognosis, and confounding psychosocial factors of each disease entity, the text provides various interdisciplinary management approaches. The case-based approach illustrates key clinical points and demonstrates how practitioners from a variety of disciplines can work together to deliver optimal patient care. The ACGME criteria for fellowship training in Pain Medicine calls for an interdisciplinary approach, with required training and exposure to the fields of Anesthesiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. As this trend is occurring in private pain clinics and practices as well as in academic institutions, there is a need for a volume which integrates the approaches of the various disciplines into a coherent whole to guide clinicians and trainees in the interdisciplinary management of pain. With each chapter authored by respected experts in the key specialties involved with pain management, Pain Medicine is a highly applicable clinical reference for practitioners, an excellent anchor text for fellows and residents in training, and a thorough review for initial board certification as well as maintenance of certification exams.

Readership: Pain Medicine residents and fellows, clinical practitioners in the field, primary care/general practitioners

Contents

Section I. Neuropathic Pain
1. Small Fiber Neuropathy
2. Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
3. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Other Facial Pain Conditions
4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Section II. Muscle, Joint and Tendon Pain
5. Myofascial Pain Syndrome
6. Pain of Rheumatological Disease
7. Tendinopathies
Section III. Spine and Related Disorders
8. Discogenic Pain
9. Lumbar Facet Pain
10. Sacroiliac Joint Pain
11. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
12. Lumbar Disc Displacement
13. Post-Laminectomy Syndrome
14. Piriformis Syndrome
15. Whiplash Associated Disorder/Cervical Facet Pain
16. Cervical Radicular Pain
17. Thoracic Back Pain
Section IV. Visceral Pain
18. Pain from Chronic Pancreatitis
19. Chronic Pelvic Pain
20. Chronic Refractory Angina
Section V. Persistent Post-Surgical Pain
21. Post-Surgical Thoracic Pain
22. Post-Herniorrhaphy Pain
Section VI. Cancer-Related Pain
23. Palliative Cancer Pain
Section VII. Other Disorders
24. Headache
25. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
26. Fibromyalgia