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The 6th edition is the continuing effort of the American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM) to aid practitioners in better understanding and employing pain management techniques. The 89 chapters by nearly 100 US contributors address the broad topics of multidisciplinary pain management; treatment of common pain syndromes; specialty approaches to pain management through team management; chronic and acute pain; special concerns like sleep and weight problems associated with pain; pain and the workplace; alternative treatments; behavioral, social and spiritual aspects of pain management; legal considerations; future trends. Five appendices include an overview of academy services and products and a patient's bill of rights related to pain management. Some of the more interesting offerings focus on the history of pain management, the impact of pain on families, nutrition for pain management, ergonomics and pain, Qigong and pain management, phantom limb pain, documenting pain, and pain's neurobiology.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
This authoritative reference, the Sixth Edition of an internationally acclaimed bestseller, offers the most up-to-date information available on multidisciplinary pain diagnosis, treatment, and management. Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians is a compilation of literature written by members of The American Academy of Pain Management, the largest multidisciplinary society of pain management professionals in North America and the largest physician-based pain society in the United States. This unique reference covers both traditional and alternative approaches and discusses the pain of children as well as adult and geriatric patients. It includes approximately 60 new chapters and each chapter is written to allow the reader to read independently topics of interest and thus may be viewed as a self-contained study module. The collection of chapters allows an authoritative self-study on many of the pressing issues faced by pain practitioners. Regardless of your specialty or medical training or whether you are in a large hospital or a small clinic, if you work with patients in need of pain management, this complete reference is for you.

Book Info
(American Academy of Pain Management) Extensive pain management for practitioners. Includes new chapters and advances in diagnosis employing new clinical testing methods. Previous edition, c1998, was published in a two-volume set. DNLM: Pain--therapy.

ANNOTATION

This book is endorsed by the American Academy of Pain Management.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This authoritative reference, the Sixth Edition of an internationally acclaimed bestseller, offers the most up-to-date information available on multidisciplinary pain diagnosis, treatment, and management. Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians is a compilation of literature written by members of The American Academy of Pain Management, the largest multidisciplinary society of pain management professionals in North America and the largest physician-based pain society in the United States. This unique reference covers both traditional and alternative approaches and discusses the pain of children as well as adult and geriatric patients. It includes approximately 60 new chapters and each chapter is written to allow the reader to read independently topics of interest and thus may be viewed as a self-contained study module. The collection of chapters allows an authoritative self-study on many of the pressing issues faced by pain practitioners. Regardless of your specialty or medical training or whether you are in a large hospital or a small clinic, if you work with patients in need of pain management, this complete reference is for you.

FROM THE CRITICS

Donald M. Sinclair

This is the fifth edition of a two volume, multiauthored work on pain management published by the American Academy of Pain Management. The purpose is to integrate the various fields of expertise in pain management and to provide a source of updated information. It is aimed at all providers of pain management and presumably has special significance for those who intend to take the examinations provided by the American Academy of Pain Management. The book has 11 sections and six appendixes with sections on work disability and return to work, legal problems, spiritual and social aspects, as examples of sections that stand out from the normal offerings. These are praiseworthy areas to highlight as separate sections. It is written by a mix of American authors. This is an inclusive book, covering a wide range of topics for therapists with the common goal of treating pain. There are good solid reviews of many areas of pain management but there are dubious chapters that tend to uncritically push certain therapies. For example, there is a chapter on the use of colchicine in the treatment of chronic pain disorders. The narrative is anecdotal in the extreme and the references are highly selective. The majority are to articles in the Journal of Neurological and Orthopedic Medicine and Surgery and the tenor of the chapter is that this is a very efficacious treatment for chronic low back pain. A quick independent review of the literature shows that there are articles in Spine, for example, with controlled studies that show that colchicine is not efficacious. These are not quoted at all, and this chapter is, in my opinion, misleading. For those involved in the examinations ofthe Academy, this may be a useful book, but for others, there are more mainstream texts available.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Louis G. Salib, MD (University of Chicago)Description: This is the first book I have read that tries to collect all data on the subject of pain management, whether medical, natural, or experience related. It represents a nice pain management mini-encyclopedia and it offers a nice reference for clinicians about different, sometimes unknown, practices of pain control. The unique chapters about oriental medicine, legal issues, and special diagnostic testing are appreciated. Purpose: The purpose is to collect and address all subjects related to pain management, all specialties involved in its practice, and all special treatment modalities related to it. This is a much needed book with the growing interest in pain control. Audience: According to the author, this book is written for pain practitioners. I believe it is useful for all clinicians who are in contact with a suffering person whether physicians, chiropractors, physiotherapists, emergency room physicians, nurses, and, finally, drug rehabilitation specialists. The author is a credible authority. Features: The book covers the definition and types of pain, how to develop a multidisciplinary pain program, management of common and special kinds of pain with differentiation between acute and chronic pain, natural and medical concepts with reference to behavioral, social, and spiritual concerns, legal issues, and a look to the future of pain management. Best in the book are the chapters about steps of describing different pain medications, oriental medicine, the problem of underestimating pain and the return to work challenge. The illustrations are very good. Assessment: This is a wonderful, interesting book, which I will refer to whenever I need to discuss pain control. Compared to other books, it definitely covers topics never addressed in internationally recognized resources.

Booknews

The 6th edition is the continuing effort of the American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM) to aid practitioners in better understanding and employing pain management techniques. The 89 chapters by nearly 100 US contributors address the broad topics of multidisciplinary pain management; treatment of common pain syndromes; specialty approaches to pain management through team management; chronic and acute pain; special concerns like sleep and weight problems associated with pain; pain and the workplace; alternative treatments; behavioral, social and spiritual aspects of pain management; legal considerations; future trends. Five appendices include an overview of academy services and products and a patient's bill of rights related to pain management. Some of the more interesting offerings focus on the history of pain management, the impact of pain on families, nutrition for pain management, ergonomics and pain, Qigong and pain management, phantom limb pain, documenting pain, and pain's neurobiology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Volume one opens with introductory chapters on pain and its magnitude and on the historical perspective of pain management. The chapters which follow address many issues faced by practitioners, including starting a pain clinic; techniques for assessing and diagnosing pain; diagnostic imaging in evaluating sources of low back pain; surface electromyography; pharmacotherapeutic and nonpharmacological management; treatment of commonly occurring pain syndromes; the impact of nursing on pain management; the psychiatrist's role; colchicine usage; the role of the neurologist in a multidisciplinary pain clinic; and the relationship of patient, physician, and attorney in the management of chronic pain. Volume two contains a shared index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

RATING

2 Stars from Doody

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