Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

"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)

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK Eija 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

List of contributors, v Preface, ix List of abbreviations, xi Part 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 1 1 Why evidence matters, 3 Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry 2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14 Alec B. OConnor and Robert H. Dworkin 3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31 Eija Kalso 4 Neurobiology of pain, 42 Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson 5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote, 52 David B. Morris 6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological interventions, 59 Christopher Eccleston Part 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 69 7 Chronic low back pain, 71 Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes 8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83 Allan Binder 22 Headache, 279 Peer Tfelt-Hansen 23 Chest pain syndromes, 292 Austin Leach and Michael Chester Part 3 Cancer pain, 309 24 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain, 311 Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto 25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics, 327 Rae Frances Bell 26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain, 337 Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy 27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture, 348 Mark I. Johnson Part 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence, 367 28 Interventional therapies, 369 Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen 29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina, 400 Mats Brjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andrll and Bengt Linderoth 30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain, 407 James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGough and Michael Schatman 31 Drug treatment of chronic pain, 424 Henry McQuay 32 Complementary therapies for pain relief, 434 Edzard Ernst Index, 439