Pain Associated with Arterial and Venous Vascular Disease
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen By late middle age 5% of men and women will have developed peripheral arterial disease and within 5 years 25% of these will develop pain at…
Chronic Pain in Infants and Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Children may experience a variety of recurrent chronic pain, such as headache or abdominal pain. Chronic pain is more common in children than persistent pain and…
Cancer Pain and Palliative Care in Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The prognosis of cancer in children has improved dramatically over the past 40 years. Unlike many adult cancers, pediatric malignancies are often responsive to initial aggressive…
Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Over the past two decades, there has been significant progress in the understanding of neuroanatomy, physiology, and the pharmacology of analgesics in children, which has led…
Assessment and Treatment of Pain in Sports Injuries
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen As our knowledge increases regarding the health benefits of exercise, more and more people attempt to stay healthy and physically fit with sports-related activities. As a…
Advances in the Management of Ischemic Pain
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain.—Emily Dickinson Ischemic pain affects millions of people worldwide. It is a detriment to quality of life…
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Ever since Claude Bernard implicated the sympathetic nervous system in sensation, its role in nociception has been the subject of debate.1 No one would argue with…
Peripheral Neuropathies
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Painful polyneuropathy (PN) is a debilitating neurologic problem and frequently a challenging therapeutic management issue. Difficulties in managing patients are too often the result of poor…
Medical Management of Cancer Pain
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Cancer pain is usually caused directly by neoplastic injury to pain-sensitive structures. For this reason, primary antineoplastic therapy, including radiation, chemotherapy, and palliative surgery, should be…
Pain in the Elderly
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen It is well known that we are an aging society with 20% of the population reaching 65 years or older by the year 2030.1 Older Americans…
