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Author:   Lesley A. Colvin (Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK) ,  Marie Fallon (St Columba's Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK) ,  Marie Fallon
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   BMJ Books
Volume:   2196
Dimensions:   Width: 22.10cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781405176217

ISBN 10:   1405176210
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Epidemiology of Chronic Pain 1 Blair H Smith and Nicola Torrance 2 Pain Mechanisms 5 Carole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker 3 Evaluation of the Patient in Pain 11 Dennis C Turk and Kimberly S Swanson 4 Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain 16 Paul Dieppe 5 Management of Low Back Pain 20 James Campbell and Lesley A Colvin 6 Neuropathic Pain 25 Lesley A Colvin and Suzanne Carty 7 Visceral Pain 31 James Maybin and Michael G Serpell 8 Post-surgical Pain 37 Susan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson 9 Headache and Orofacial Pain 42 Anne MacGregor and Joanna M Zakrzewska 10 Cancer Pain 48 Marie Fallon 11 Treating Pain in Patients with Drug-dependence Problems 54 Jane C Ballantyne 12 Pain in Children 60 Suellen M Walker 13 Pain in Older Adults 65 Debra K Weiner 14 Pain in Pregnancy 69 George R Harrison 15 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain 73 David Gillanders 16 Interventional Procedures in Pain Management 79 Dominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy 17 The Role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management 86 Paul J Watson 18 The Role of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) in Pain Management 91 Mark I Johnson 19 Complementary and Alternative Strategies 99 Margaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson 20 Opioids in Chronic Non-malignant Pain 103 Eija Kalso Index 109

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JEAN-GUILLAUME DUMAS is Professor at the University of Grenoble, where he teaches security, programming languages, cryptology, and computer algebra. JEAN-LOUIS ROCH is Associate Professor at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble (INPG), and teaches security, coding theory, cryptology, parallelism, and algorithms. ÉRIC TANNIER is Research Associate at the National French Institute for Computer Science (INRIA). He works in computational biology in the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (LBBE) of the University of Lyon. SÉBASTIEN VARRETTE is Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg. He works in the High Performance Computing (HPC) area, in particular as regards the security of distributed and/or parallel executions.

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