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Chronic Pain

A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management

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  • © 2005

Overview

Editors:
  1. Dawn A. Marcus

    1. Pain Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

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  • Case-oriented approach to diagnosing and treating chronic pain patients in a busy office
  • Comprehensive review of commonly occurring chronic pain conditions
  • Special attention given to children, adolescents, pregnant women, and geriatric patients
  • Clinical guidance for the obese and patients with psychological comorbidity
  • Copious illustrations, bulleted lists, and numerous tables and figures
  • Clinical work sheets for patient assessment, education, treatment, and monitoring
  • Practical guidelines for prescribing pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapy
  • Discussion of the rational use of opioids in select chronic pain patients
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Practice (CCP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Chronic Pain and Headache

      Pages 3-9

    3. Summary of Pain Management Issues

      Pages 11-13

  3. Pathogenesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Pathogenesis of Chronic Pain

      Pages 17-29

  4. Common Chronic Pain Conditions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Headache

      Pages 33-54

    3. Cervical and Lumbar Pain

      Pages 55-74

    4. Abdominal Pain

      Pages 75-89

    5. Arthritis

      Pages 91-110

    6. Neuropathic Pain

      Pages 111-129

    7. Myofascial Pain

      Pages 131-146

    8. Fibromyalgia

      Pages 147-164

  5. Special Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Pediatric Pain

      Pages 167-184

    3. Pregnancy and Pain

      Pages 185-200

    4. Geriatrics and Chronic Pain

      Pages 201-217

    5. Gender and Ethnic Issues in Chronic Pain

      Pages 219-234

  6. Comorbid Conditions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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About this book

Patients with chronic pain present a unique set of challenges to the primary care clinician. In Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management, leading pain specialist Dawn A. Marcus, MD, offers practical, clear, and succinct evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the myriad of painful conditions clinicians see in their offices every day, such as headache, back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and abdominal pain. Using an engaging case-based approach, the author simplifies the often complex care of patients with chronic pain by providing practical strategies for targeting important symptoms, establishing realistic treatment goals, and efficiently and effectively managing patients. Clinic-friendly instructional sheets (questionnaires, diaries, and chart documentation tools) can be copied directly from the book and used for both education and the monitoring of therapeutic compliance and response. Importantly, Dr. Marcus offers all of these practical applications in the context of the busy office practice. The author also presents invaluable guidelines for prescribing medications and nonmedicative therapies, and provides descriptions, illustrations, and diagnostic criteria to help identify specific, commonly occurring syndromes that produce chronic pain. Additional features include sections on opioid therapy and on chronic pain in special patient groups such as children and adolescents, pregnant women, and geriatrics. Also included is a value-added compact disk containing a companion ebook version of the book for downloading and use in the reader's computer or PDA, and continuing medical education (CME) questions that provide the opportunity to acquire 5 AMA/PRA category 1 CME credits from the American Society of Contemporary Medicine and Surgery. Comprehensive and case-oriented, Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management offers busy health care providers a practice-friendly approach to assessing and managing the often complex and time-consuming problems of chronic pain.

Reviews

"This is a well written and illustrated book containing many tools that will help clinicians provide better care for their chronic pain patients." - Doody's Health Sciences and Book Review Journal

"...this book provides invaluable guidelines for prescribing both medication and non-medication-based therapies for the most common pain conditions seen in a general medical practice." - Headache and Pain

"...a marvelous resource for practitioners trying to cope with the burden of chronic pain in general medical practice." - Anesth Analg

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pain Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

    Dawn A. Marcus

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chronic Pain

  • Book Subtitle: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management

  • Editors: Dawn A. Marcus

  • Series Title: Current Clinical Practice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1385/159259882X

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-882-3Published: 06 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 2364-1150

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-1169

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 127 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Primary Care Medicine

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