Title | Contemporary Issues in Chronic Pain Management [electronic resource] / edited by Winston C. V. Parris |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3888-2 |
Descript | XIX, 311 p. online resource |
1. Historical Perspectives on Pain Management -- 2. Pain, Ethnicity, and Culture -- 3. Recent Physiological Studies of Pain -- 4. Analgesiology: A New Approach to Pain -- 5. Endorphins and Narcotic Drugs: Pain Control Paradigms vs. Legal Realities -- 6. Pharmacology of Substance P and Related Tachykinins -- 7. Somatostatin and Chronic Pain Management -- 8. Perspectives of Capsaicin-Type Agents in Pain Therapy and Research -- 9. Pain Measurement -- 10. Selective Tissue Conductance in the Assessment of Sympathetically Mediated Pain -- 11. Visceral and Referred Pain -- 12. Nerve Block Therapy in Chronic Pain Management -- 13. Management of Headache -- 14. The Role of Substance P and Related Neuropeptides in Chronic Pain Mechanisms -- 15. Current Therapy of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy -- 16. Differential Diagnosis of Painful Conditions and Thermography -- 17. Psychological Assessment and Treatment of Cancer Pain -- 18. Low-Level Laser Biomodulation for Chronic Pain Management -- 19. Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain Management