Pain Management: Theory and Practice

by Russell K. Portenoy

Book Overview

Chapters on pain definition and assessment, basic mechanisms, and epidemiology provide a foundation for a detailed discussion of the most common pain syndromes. The identification and treatment of specific syndromes are highlighted in separate chapters on headache, neuropathic pain, low back pain, fibromyalgia and myofascial pain, arthritis and cancer pain. An entire section devoted to therapeutics provides current information about a broad spectrum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803601719
• ISBN13: 9780803601710
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.3"