Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine.

* Comprehensive - one-stop resource for almost any informational need they in treating acute or chronic pain. | * Covers the field of pain medicine in about 1000 printed pages, so many readers will find it more manageable than other comprehensive titles.| * Truly inter-disciplinary, with coverage of all major approaches to pain, from pharmacologic to neurologic to behavioral to technologic, in reflection of increasing use of multi-disciplinary pain clinics.| * Includes coverage of the basic science of pain in addition to clinical diagnosis and therapeutics, so readers have access to the important anatomical, physiological, and molecular basis of pain.| * Each chapter contributed by a leading national authority, so readers are getting trustworthy, accurate, updated information from the best clinicians in the field| * Diagnosis section provides the latest developments and technology in pain medicine, including electrodiagnostic approaches and functional MRI, so readers have access to the state-of-the-art in pain diagnosis.| * Includes a section on behavioral aspects of pain, with multiple chapters addressing this increasingly important and utilized aspect of pain medicine. | * Also includes chapters on legal, ethical, and practical aspects of running a pain medicine clinic, so readers learn how to Ĺźset up shopĹź. This section helps define the book as a reference-text for the specialty of pain medicine.| * Addresses pain complaints of specific anatomic regions as well as pain syndromes such as cancer pain, pain in vascular disease, and generalized visceral pain. | * Addresses all major therapeutic approaches, from pharmacologic therapy to peripheral nerve blocks to surgical approaches to acupuncture and other alternative medical interventions.