{"product_id":"abc-of-pain-isbn-9781405176217","title":"ABC of Pain","description":"Chronic pain is a very common problem, impacting on many patients. Assessment and management can be challenging. The \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the pain management issues often encountered in primary care. \u003cp\u003eCovering major chronic pain presentations, such as musculoskeletal pain, low back pain and neuropathic pain, the \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e also provides guidance on the management of pain in pregnancy, children, older adults, drug dependency and the terminally ill. Beginning with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic pain, pain mechanisms and the assessment of pain, it then provides practical guidance on interventional procedures and methods of effective pain management.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive, evidence-based reference. It is ideal for GPs, junior doctors, nurse specialists in primary care, palliative care specialists, and also hospital and hospice staff managing chronically and terminally ill patients.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Epidemiology of Chronic Pain 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlair H Smith and Nicola Torrance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Pain Mechanisms 5\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Evaluation of the Patient in Pain 11\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis C Turk and Kimberly S Swanson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain 16\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Dieppe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Management of Low Back Pain 20\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Campbell and Lesley A Colvin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Neuropathic Pain 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLesley A Colvin and Suzanne Carty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Visceral Pain 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Maybin and Michael G Serpell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Post-surgical Pain 37\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Headache and Orofacial Pain 42\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnne MacGregor and Joanna M Zakrzewska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Cancer Pain 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarie Fallon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Treating Pain in Patients with Drug-dependence Problems 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane C Ballantyne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Pain in Children 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuellen M Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Pain in Older Adults 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDebra K Weiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Pain in Pregnancy 69\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge R Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Gillanders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Interventional Procedures in Pain Management 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul J Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Role of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) in Pain Management 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark I Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Complementary and Alternative Strategies 99\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Opioids in Chronic Non-malignant Pain 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEija Kalso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 109\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEAN-GUILLAUME DUMAS\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor at the University of Grenoble, where he teaches security, programming languages, cryptology, and computer algebra. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEAN-LOUIS ROCH\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble (INPG), and teaches security, coding theory, cryptology, parallelism, and algorithms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eÉRIC TANNIER\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Associate at the National French Institute for Computer Science (INRIA). He works in computational biology in the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (LBBE) of the University of Lyon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSÉBASTIEN VARRETTE\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg. He works in the High Performance Computing (HPC) area, in particular as regards the security of distributed and\/or parallel executions.   \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the ABC of Pain \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Lesley A. Colvin, Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care \u0026amp; Pain Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK and Marie Fallon, St Columba's Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre (CRUK), University of Edinburgh, UK \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronic pain is a very common problem, impacting on many patients. Assessment and management can be challenging. The \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the pain management issues often encountered in primary care. \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering major chronic pain presentations, such as musculoskeletal pain, low back pain and neuropathic pain, the \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e also provides guidance on the management of pain in pregnancy, children, older adults, drug dependency and the terminally ill. Beginning with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic pain, pain mechanisms and the assessment of pain, it then provides practical guidance on interventional procedures and methods of effective pain management. \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eABC of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive, evidence-based reference. 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