InhaltsangabeContributors Preface 1 Epidemiology of Chronic Pain Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance 2 Pain Mechanisms Carole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker 3 Evaluation of the patient in pain>Dennis C. Turk and Kimberly S. Swanson 4 Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Paul Dieppe 5 Management of Low Back Pain Lesley A. Colvin and James Campbell 6 Neuropathic Pain Lesley A. Colvin and Suzanne Carty 7 Visceral Pain James Maybin and Michael G. Serpell 8 Postsurgical Pain Susan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson 9 Headache and Orofacial Pain Anne MacGregor and Joanna M Zakrzewska 10 Cancer Pain Marie Fallon 11 Treating pain in patients with drug-dependence problems Jane C. Ballantyne 12 Pain in Children Suellen M Walker 13 Pain in Older Adults Debra K. Weiner 14 Pain in Pregnancy George R Harrison 15 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain David Gillanders 16 Interventional procedures in pain management Dominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy 17 The role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management Paul J. Watson 18 The role of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in pain management Mark I. Johnson 19 Complementary and Alternative Strategies Margaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson 20 Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain Eija Kalso Index

Lesley A. Colvin, Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK Marie Fallon, Clinical Reader In Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Care, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

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