The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management / Handbook of pain management Pain management editor, Jane C. Ballantyne ; foreword by Howard L. Fields. - 3rd ed. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. - xxiv, 628 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neurophysiologic basis of pain / Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research / The placebo effect / The history and clinical examination / Diagnostic imaging and pain management / Assessment of pain / Neurophysiologic testing in pain management / Opioids / Adjuvant treatments / Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist / Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management / Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain / Neurosurgical pain management / Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain / Physical therapy / Physiatric treatment of pain / Acupuncture / Chronic pain rehabilitation / Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain / Gary Jay Brenner -- Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf -- Eija Kalso -- Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian -- Onassis A. Caneris -- Alyssa A. LeBel -- Annabel D. Edwards and Lisa S. Krivickas --Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs / Jane C. Ballantyne and Steven A. Barna -- Jeffrey Uppington -- Karla Hayes -- Daniel M. Rockers and Karla Hayes -- Milan P. Stojanovic -- Milan P. Stojanovic -- Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad N. Eskandar -- Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew -- Theresa H. Michel and Harriوet Wittink -- Joseph F. Audette and Allison Bailey -- Jasmin M. Field, Lucy L. Chen, and May C.M. Pian-Smith -- Elizabeth Loder and Patricia W. McAlary -- Thomas F. DeLaney -- Postoperative pain in adults / Postoperative pain in children / Pain in burn patients / Pain management in sickle cell disease / Neuropathic pain syndromes / Complex regional pain syndrome / Low back pain / Headache / Orofacial pain / Opioids in chronic nonterminal pain / Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Pain in adults with cancer / Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease / Palliative medicine / Long-term opioid therapy, drug abuse, and addiction / Pain and affective disorders / Emergencies in the pain clinic / Appendices. Jane C. Ballantyne and Elizabeth Ryder -- Lucy L. Chen and Jane C. Ballantyne -- Salahadin Abdi and Bucknam McPeek -- Jatinder Gill -- Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander -- Eugenia-Daniela Hord -- James P. Rathmell ... [et al.] -- Fred Michael Cutrer and David F. Black -- Alexandre F.M. DeSilva and Martin Andrew Acquadro -- Jane C. Ballantyne -- S. Jane Marshall, Sarah Cox, and Andrew S.C. Rice -- Eugenia-Daniela Hord, Jeffrey A. Norton, and Annabel D. Edwards -- Alyssa A. LeBel -- Constance M. Dahlin, Andrew Tyler Putnam, and J. Andrew Billings -- Barth L. Wilsey and Scott Fishman -- Daniel M. Rockers and Scott Fishman -- Asteghik Hacobian and Milan P. Stojanovic --

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