Common Pain Problems: Low Back Pain
(1) Wisconsin Rehabilitation Medicine Professionals, Milwaukee, WI, USA Low back pain (LBP), also called lower back pain and pain in the lower part of the spine, is the most…
Evaluation of Disability in Patients with Chronic Pain
(1) Wisconsin Rehabilitation Medicine Professionals, Milwaukee, WI, USA Any clinician who sees patients with pain will likely see patients with disabilities. Because claims of disability affect the workplace, through…
Cognitive Behavioral Coping Strategies
, Kelly Smerz2 and Brad K. Grunert3, 4 (1) Wisconsin Rehabilitation Medicine Professionals, Milwaukee, WI, USA (2) Milwaukee, WI, USA (3) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,…
Treatments That Have Questionable or Controversial Evidence
(1) Wisconsin Rehabilitation Medicine Professionals, Milwaukee, WI, USA Note about this chapter: This chapter does not address the treatment of patients with acute and subacute pain. It does not…
Planning a Mission, Fundraising, and Building a Team
Fig. 5.1 Site assessment form example. These document samples are the property of Kybele, Inc. If you use these or any part of these materials in publication, kindly reference that…
Letters from Around the World
(2) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA It is Monday morning, warm even at this early hour. By midday it will be a scorcher….
Anesthetic Management During the Lebanese Civil War
Fig. 21.1 (a, b) The AUB clock Tower before and after destruction. (c) Center of Beirut destroyed Statistics Between April 1975 and November 1976, 8,324 casualties came though the Emergency…
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Intensive Care: What Is the Role of Missions?
Fig. 16.1 The increase in the absolute number of percutaneous coronary interventions versus the number of open heart surgeries from 1983–1985 to present. X axis: year. Y axis: number of…
Medical Missions: A Short History from There to Here
Fig. 1.1 Maimonides eighteenth-century portrait of Maimonides, from the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum by Blaisio Ugolino (Wikipedia accessed March 11th 2014) During the Middle Ages, Catholicism became dominant in the religious…
Anesthesiologists’ Role in Disaster Management
Fig. 23.1 Hurricane Katrina http://densitykatrina.wordpress.com Worldwide demographic analysis has proven that many heavily concentrated populations are located along major fault lines [3]. Such population trends predispose large numbers of people…
