Pain in the Older Person
Pain in the Older Person Paul M. Arnstein Keela Herr Overview Medical science continues to expand its capacity to forestall death. As a result, people are living longer but increasingly…
Persistent Pain in Children
Persistent Pain in Children Bobbie L. Riley Tonya M. Palermo Gary A. Walco Charles Berde Neil L. Schechter Persistent pain problems in children, as in adults, may stem from a…
Fibromyalgia: A Discrete Disease or the End of the Continuum
Fibromyalgia: A Discrete Disease or the End of the Continuum Daniel J. Clauw Chad Brummett Clinical practitioners commonly see patients with pain and other somatic symptoms that they cannot adequately…
Acute Pain Management in Children
Acute Pain Management in Children Stacy J. Peterson Kristen Lynn Labovsky Steven J. Weisman Nociception alerts the organism to potential or actual sources of harm. Nociceptive functions are active at…
Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury
Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury Kevin N. Alschuler Maria Regina Reyes Thomas N. Bryce Pain following spinal cord injury (SCI) is common and includes a spectrum of pain types which…
Cancer Pain in Children
Cancer Pain in Children Roy L. Kao Lonnie Zeltzer Jacqueline Casillas Overview of Childhood Cancer EPIDEMIOLOGY Worldwide, cancer is diagnosed in approximately 300,000 children under age 20 years each year,…
Cancer-Related Visceral Pain
Cancer-Related Visceral Pain Mary Alice Vijjeswarapu Lalitha Sundararaman Edgar Ross Epidemiology Review In 2004, 1.4 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer. This number equals approximately 4,000 new diagnoses per day….
Cancer-Related Bone Pain
Cancer-Related Bone Pain Edgar Ross Lalitha Sundararaman Mary Alice Vijjeswarapu Epidemiology Review Bone pain due to cancer is caused by primary bone tumors and those malignant diseases that commonly metastasize…
Pain Due to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Pain Due to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Kaj Johansen Thomas Tai Chung George I. Thomas An important and incompletely understood cause of upper extremity pain is subsumed under the rubric of…
Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia
Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia Siddarth Thakur Robert H. Dworkin Rajbala Thakur The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the clinical presentation and management of herpes…
