Laws and Policies Affecting Pain Management in the United States Aaron M. Gilson James F. Cleary Introduction PREVALENCE OF UNRELIEVED PAIN IS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM In The Mystery of…
Ethical Issues in Pain Management Ben A. Rich The fourth edition of this book was the first to include chapters specifically addressing the ethical dimensions of pain management. This is…
Clinical Trials Roger Chou Richard A. Deyo Controversies abound in the clinical management of pain, and there are enormous geographic variations in care. Lumbar spine surgery rates historically vary fivefold…
Individual Differences in Pain: The Roles of Gender, Ethnicity, and Genetics Roger B. Fillingim The experience of pain is characterized by tremendous interindividual variability.1 Indeed, similar injuries, disease states, or…
Psychological Aspects of Pain Dennis C. Turk Kimberly Shawn Swanson Hilary D. Wilson Advances in the knowledge of the neurophysiology of pain have resulted in the development of new pharmacologic…
Supraspinal Mechanisms of Pain and Nociception Michael Hauck Ürgen Lorenz The preceding chapters addressed the peripheral and spinal mechanisms of nociceptive processing. Neither normal nor pathologic pain can be understood…
Modulation of Spinal Nociceptive Processing Timothy J. Ness Alan Randich Jennifer J. Deberry The preceding chapter addressed the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of neurons located within the spinal cord that process…
Peripheral Pain Mechanisms and Nociceptor Sensitization Michael S. Gold Pain has been categorized by duration (acute vs. chronic), location (superficial or deep; cutaneous, bone/joint, muscle, or viscera), and cause or…
Substrates of Spinal Cord Nociceptive Processing Jennifer J. Deberry Alan Randich Timothy J. Ness The spinal cord and brainstem nuclei are home to second-order neurons, the first step of central…
Intellectual Milestones in Our Understanding and Treatment of Pain G. F. Gebhart In order to treat something we first must learn to recognize it. —Sir William Osler1 Through the ages,…
