- Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
- Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
- Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
- Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain
Table of Contents
List of contributors, vPreface, 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. O’Connor 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 Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll 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
