Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UKEija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"Whether you are new to the field of nursing, or an experienced practitioner, this book is an ideal resource ... This is an important book for libraries." (Primary Health Care, 1 December 2011)

• List of contributors, v Preface, ixList of abbreviations, xiPart 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 11 Why evidence matters, 3Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14Alec B. O’Connor and Robert H. Dworkin3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31Eija Kalso4 Neurobiology of pain, 42Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote, 52David B. Morris6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological interventions, 59Christopher EcclestonPart 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 697 Chronic low back pain, 71Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83Allan Binder22 Headache, 279Peer Tfelt-Hansen23 Chest pain syndromes, 292Austin Leach and Michael ChesterPart 3 Cancer pain, 30924 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain, 311Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics, 327Rae Frances Bell26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain, 337Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture, 348Mark I. JohnsonPart 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence, 36728 Interventional therapies, 369Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina, 400Mats Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll and Bengt Linderoth30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain, 407James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough and Michael Schatman31 Drug treatment of chronic pain, 424Henry McQuay32 Complementary therapies for pain relief, 434Edzard ErnstIndex, 439