Assessing Chronic Pain

Assessing Chronic Pain offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients. Rather than adhering to the criteria of any one discipline's approach to treating chronic pain, whether that of anesthesia, physical therapy, psychiatry or psychology, the editors overview a range of disciplines, and focus on the integration of those approaches to achieve what they term a "handbook", rather than a textbook, for the assessment of chronic pain from a multidisciplinary perspective. Issues confronting clinicians have been compounded by procedural problems and assessment indecision, but in Assessing Chronic Pain, Drs. Camic and Brown create a framework to guide specialists in all fields in approaching the patient suffering from chronic, non-malignant pain.

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Assessing Chronic Pain offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients. Rather than adhering to the criteria of any one discipline's approach to treating chronic pain, whether that of anesthesia, physical therapy, psychiatry or psychology, the editors overview a range of disciplines, and focus on the integration of those approaches to achieve what they term a "handbook", rather than a textbook, for the assessment of chronic pain from a multidisciplinary perspective. Issues confronting clinicians have been compounded by procedural problems and assessment indecision, but in Assessing Chronic Pain, Drs. Camic and Brown create a framework to guide specialists in all fields in approaching the patient suffering from chronic, non-malignant pain.

Contenu
1 Introduction to Multidisciplinary Pain Assessment.- 2 Physiology, Anatomy, and Pharmacology of Pain Perception.- 3 The Physical Examination of the Patient in Pain.- 4 Psychological Assessment of the Chronic Pain Patient: Behaviors, Cognitions, and Dynamics.- 5 Psychometric Evaluation.- 6 Role of the Anesthesiologist in the Treatment of Pain.- 7 Pharmacologic Treatment of Chronic Pain.- 8 Psychiatric Examination and Treatment Determination.- 9 The Conservative Medical Management of Pain.- 10 Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain.- 11 Dental Pain: Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders.- 12 Bringing It All Together: Developing the Clinical Treatment Team.- Author Index.