The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pain Management: Dealing with Difficult Clinician-Patient Interactions Robert N. Jamison Pain management physicians commonly have to deal with doctor-patient conflicts because of the nature of persons…
Central Pain States Nanna Brix Finnerup Sharona Ben-Haim Central neuropathic pain or central pain is defined as “pain caused by a lesion or disease of the central somatosensory nervous system.”1…
Pain and Learning Robert J. Gatchel Brian R. Theodore Nancy D. Kishino One of the major contributions of the behavioral sciences to the area of medicine has been the application…
Psychiatric Illness, Depression, Anxiety, and Somatic Symptom Disorder Joseph Gregory Hobelmann Mark D. Sullivan Michael R. Clark Ajay D. Wasan Chronic pain and psychiatric illness commonly occur together.1 Yet the…
Measurement of Pain Mark P. Jensen Introduction Valid and reliable pain assessment is essential for successful pain care. Adequate assessment is also necessary to determine the efficacy of pain treatments…
Phantom Pain Kelly A. Bruno Howard S. Smith Irfan Lalani Charles E. Argoff Ambrose Pare, a French military surgeon, is credited with first describing phantom limb pain (PLP) in the…
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Michael T. Massey Robert Norman Harden Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is the current taxonomy for the syndrome previously known by various names, including reflex sympathetic…
Multidisciplinary Assessment of Patients with Chronic Pain Dennis C. Turk James P. Robinson This chapter deals with the multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic noncancer pain. In order to be…
Painful Neuropathies Georgios Manousakis Miroslav Backonja David Walk Pain as a Symptom of Neuropathy Neuropathy is a common clinical problem. Pain merits attention in any discussion of neuropathy for several…
International Access to Therapeutic Opioids James F. Cleary Martha A. Maurer S. Asra Husain Over three decades ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that most pain due to cancer…
