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Fast facts chronic and cancer pain / by Cousins, Michael J.

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Pain management in rehabilitation

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Bonica's management of pain /

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --…”
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Understanding chronic pain by Koestler, Angela J.

Table of Contents: “…What is chronic pain? -- What causes chronic pain? -- Seeking relief -- Taking care of yourself -- Low back pain -- Nerve pain -- Rheumatic pain -- Cancer pain -- Other chronic pain conditions -- The search for cures.…”
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HSV vectors approaches to the treatment of chronic pain /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: HSV gene therapy for pain -- Criteria for vector engineering and gene delivery -- HSV gene expression and HSV vectors -- Treating pain with opioid peptides -- Spinal nerve ligation model of neuropathic pain -- Transduction of lumbar DRG with HSV vector -- Osteolytic sarcoma studies -- Clinical trial in terminal cancer patients -- Effect of glycine on nociceptive behavior -- Selective vector infection and expression -- Targeting transgene expression with promoters -- Gene expression constructs -- Promoter-regulated expression in embryonic DRG -- Comparing LAP, CMV & CGRP gene expression.…”
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