Group Therapy for Chronic Pain

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Group Therapy for Chronic Pain Melissa A. Day Beverly E. Thorn Group therapy continues to be an appealing and common method of chronic pain treatment delivery both in clinical and…

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Skeletal Muscle Relaxants and Analgesic Balms

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Skeletal Muscle Relaxants and Analgesic Balms Ausim Chaghtai Charles E. Argoff Skeletal Muscle Relaxants The class of medications termed skeletal muscle relaxants is ill defined leading to much confusion for…

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Hypnosis

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Hypnosis Jeanne Hernandez History of Hypnosis in Pain and Symptom Control Hypnosis is a word derived from the Greek word meaning “sleep.” The fairly ancient practice was used by the…

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Surgery for Low Back Pain

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Surgery for Low Back Pain Youssef Ghabrial Nikolai Bogduk Fusion of the lumbar spine was initially developed to treat tuberculosis of the spine and to stabilize spinal deformities.1,2,3 Later, it…

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Pain and Anxiety and Depression

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Pain and Anxiety and Depression Lin Yu Lance M. McCracken The experience of chronic pain is upsetting, frightening, discouraging, and demoralizing and creates significant suffering for those who experience it….

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Headache

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Headache Peter J. Goadsby Headache is a remarkably common problem in neurology and even in general medicine and, by definition, has a substantial pain component. Books are devoted to the…

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Abdominal, Peritoneal, and Retroperitoneal Pain

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Abdominal, Peritoneal, and Retroperitoneal Pain David Justin Levinthal Klaus Bielefeldt Abdominal pain is one of the leading causes for patients to seek consultation with a physician (Fig. 63.1). Determining the…

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Neuropathic Pain Pharmacotherapy

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Neuropathic Pain Pharmacotherapy Elon Eisenberg Simon Vulfsons David M. Peterson Neuropathic pain is pain caused by a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system.1,2 According to a recent systematic…

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Rational Pharmacotherapy for Pain

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Rational Pharmacotherapy for Pain G. Lipman Pharmacology is the science that deals with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects, and uses of drugs. Commonly, pharmacology is subdivided into pharmacodynamics (how drugs…

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Facial Pain

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Facial Pain Alaa Abd-Elsayed Pamela J. Hughes Ahmed M.T. Raslan Facial pain syndromes are common in clinical practice. Many of these syndromes are also unique, given the complex anatomy and…

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