Textbook of pain
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Bibliographic Information
Textbook of pain
Churchill Livingstone, 1994
3rd ed
Available at 35 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A new edition of the first comprehensive textbook on pain covering basic scientific knowledge, clinical aspects of diseases in which pain predominates, and the management of pain. The third edition has been revised throughout to reflect advances in every aspect of understanding pain. Reviews of second edition "In the library it will be consulted by pathologists, specialists, and general practitionersEIt is an invaluable compilation, written by 111 contributors, Eand is worth the money.British Medical Journal "Ethis is certainly an excellent book for pain-clinic clinicians and for hospice staff. Anaesthetic departments should have a copy, and hospital libraries will find it a useful reference source." British Journal of Hospital Medicine "Ethe best currently available textbook on virtually all aspects of pain, ranging from laboratory and experimental aspects of nociception to clinical pain conditions and their medical, surgical and psychological management. Ean outstanding editorial achievement, and the book in my opinion has no rival. Ethose interested in the field will find it an invaluable work at a very reasonable price." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
Table of Contents
Section One Basic Aspects: Peripheral and Central. Peripheral Neural Mechanisms of Nociception. Inflammatory Pain. Nociceptive Peripheral Neurons: Cellular Properties. The Pathophysiology of Damaged Peripheral Nerves. The Dorsal Horn: State-Dependent Sensory Processing and the Generation of Pain. Brain Areas Involved in Nociception and Pain. Mechanisms of Cutaneous, Deep and Visceral Pain. Neurobiology of Fetal and Neonatal Pain. Central Pharmacology of Nociceptive Transmission. Neuropathic Pain. Spinal Dorsal Horn Plasticity Following Tissue or Nerve Injury. Central Nervous System Mechanisms of Pain Modulation. Psychological. Emotional Aspects of Pain. Cognitive Aspects of Pain. Measurement. Methods of Assessing Pain in Animals. Measurement and Assessment of Paediatric Pain. Studies of Pain in Normal Man. Pain Measurement in Persons in Pain Section Two Clinical Aspects of Diseases in Which Pain Predominates: Soft Tissue, Joints and Bone. Acute and Postoperative Pain. Osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis. Orthopaedic Pain After Trauma. Skeletal Muscle Pain. Low Back Pain: Epidemiology, Anatomy and Neurophysiology. Upper Extremity Pain. Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndromes. Headache. Pain of Burns. Deep and Visceral Pain. Heart and Vascular Pain. Eye Pain. Orofacial Pain. Abdominal Pain. Chronic Gynaecological Pain. Labour Pain. Genitourinary Pain. Nerve and Root Damage. Phantom Pain and Other Phenomena After Amputation. Peripheral Neuropathies. Clinical Manifestations of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Sympathetically Maintained Pain. Tic Douloureux and Atypical Face Pain. Nerve Root Damage and Arachnoiditis. Children. Pain Experience in Children: Developmental and Clinical Characteristics. Geriatric. Geriatric Pain. Carcinoma. Cancer Pain: Principles of Assessment and Syndromes. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer Pain. Pain and Impending Death. Central Nervous System. Central Pain. Pain and Psychological Medicine Section Three Therapeutic Aspects: Pharmacology. Nonnarcotic Analgesics. Op
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