The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management

Content: Neurophysiologic basis of pain / Gary Jay Brenner --
Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research / Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf --
The placebo effect / Eija Kalso --
The history and clinical examination / Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian --
Diagnostic imaging and pain management / Onassis A. Caneris --
Assessment of pain / Alyssa A. LeBel --
Neurophysiologic testing in pain management / Annabel D. Edwards and Lisa S. Krivickas --
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs / Jane C. Ballantyne and Steven A. Barna --
Opioids / Jeffrey Uppington --
Adjuvant treatments / Karla Hayes --
Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist / Daniel M. Rockers and Karla Hayes --
Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management / Milan P. Stojanovic --
Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain / Milan P. Stojanovic --
Neurosurgical pain management / Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad N. Eskandar --
Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain / Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew --
Physical therapy / Theresa H. Michel and Harriët Wittink --
Physiatric treatment of pain / Joseph F. Audette and Allison Bailey --
Acupuncture / Jasmin M. Field, Lucy L. Chen, and May C.M. Pian-Smith --
Chronic pain rehabilitation / Elizabeth Loder and Patricia W. McAlary --
Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain / Thomas F. DeLaney --
Postoperative pain in adults / Jane C. Ballantyne and Elizabeth Ryder --
Postoperative pain in children / Lucy L. Chen and Jane C. Ballantyne --
Pain in burn patients / Salahadin Abdi and Bucknam McPeek --
Pain management in sickle cell disease / Jatinder Gill --
Neuropathic pain syndromes / Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander --
Complex regional pain syndrome / Eugenia-Daniela Hord --
Low back pain / James P. Rathmell ... [et al.] --
Headache / Fred Michael Cutrer and David F. Black --
Orofacial pain / Alexandre F.M. DeSilva and Martin Andrew Acquadro --
Opioids in chronic nonterminal pain / Jane C. Ballantyne --
Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / S. Jane Marshall, Sarah Cox, and Andrew S.C. Rice --
Pain in adults with cancer / Eugenia-Daniela Hord, Jeffrey A. Norton, and Annabel D. Edwards --
Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease / Alyssa A. LeBel --
Palliative medicine / Constance M. Dahlin, Andrew Tyler Putnam, and J. Andrew Billings --
Long-term opioid therapy, drug abuse, and addiction / Barth L. Wilsey and Scott Fishman --
Pain and affective disorders / Daniel M. Rockers and Scott Fishman --
Emergencies in the pain clinic / Asteghik Hacobian and Milan P. Stojanovic --
Appendices.