The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management / editor, Jane C. Ballantyne ; foreword by Howard L. Fields.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neurophysiologic basis of pain / Gary Jay Brenner -- Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research / Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf -- The placebo effect / Eija Kalso -- The history and clinical examination / Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian -- Diagnostic imaging and pain management / Onassis A. Caneris -- Assessment of pain / Alyssa A. LeBel -- Neurophysiologic testing in pain management / Annabel D. Edwards and Lisa S. Krivickas --Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs / Jane C. Ballantyne and Steven A. Barna -- Opioids / Jeffrey Uppington -- Adjuvant treatments / Karla Hayes -- Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist / Daniel M. Rockers and Karla Hayes -- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management / Milan P. Stojanovic -- Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain / Milan P. Stojanovic -- Neurosurgical pain management / Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad N. Eskandar -- Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain / Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew -- Physical therapy / Theresa H. Michel and Harriوet Wittink -- Physiatric treatment of pain / Joseph F. Audette and Allison Bailey -- Acupuncture / Jasmin M. Field, Lucy L. Chen, and May C.M. Pian-Smith -- Chronic pain rehabilitation / Elizabeth Loder and Patricia W. McAlary -- Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain / Thomas F. DeLaney --

Postoperative pain in adults / Jane C. Ballantyne and Elizabeth Ryder -- Postoperative pain in children / Lucy L. Chen and Jane C. Ballantyne -- Pain in burn patients / Salahadin Abdi and Bucknam McPeek -- Pain management in sickle cell disease / Jatinder Gill -- Neuropathic pain syndromes / Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander -- Complex regional pain syndrome / Eugenia-Daniela Hord -- Low back pain / James P. Rathmell ... [et al.] -- Headache / Fred Michael Cutrer and David F. Black -- Orofacial pain / Alexandre F.M. DeSilva and Martin Andrew Acquadro -- Opioids in chronic nonterminal pain / Jane C. Ballantyne -- Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / S. Jane Marshall, Sarah Cox, and Andrew S.C. Rice -- Pain in adults with cancer / Eugenia-Daniela Hord, Jeffrey A. Norton, and Annabel D. Edwards -- Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease / Alyssa A. LeBel -- Palliative medicine / Constance M. Dahlin, Andrew Tyler Putnam, and J. Andrew Billings -- Long-term opioid therapy, drug abuse, and addiction / Barth L. Wilsey and Scott Fishman -- Pain and affective disorders / Daniel M. Rockers and Scott Fishman -- Emergencies in the pain clinic / Asteghik Hacobian and Milan P. Stojanovic -- Appendices.