Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches

From reviews of Deer, eds., Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches:

"Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches is a major textbook... [I]t should be a part of all departmental libraries and in the reference collection of pain fellows and pain practitioners. In fact, this text could be to pain as Miller is to general anesthesia."

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Edited by master clinician-experts appointed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine, this is a soft cover version of the Integrative section of the acclaimed Deer, eds., Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches. It is intended as a primary reference for busy clinicians who seek up-to-date and authoritative information about integrative approaches to treating chronic pain.

• Behavioral dimensions of the experience and management of pain
• Integrative approaches for treating the "whole person"
• Legal issues, such as failure to treat pain
• First-hand patient accounts
• "Key Points" preview contents of each chapter

1. Pain as a Perceptual Experience.- 2. Neuroplasticity, Sensitization, and Pain.- 3. Muscle Pain Treatment.- 4. Addictive Disorders and Pain.- 5. The Five-Minute Mental Status Examination of Persons with Pain.- 6. The Psychological Assessment of Patients with Chronic Pain.- 7. Psychological Therapies.- 8. Billing Psychological Services for Patients with Chronic Pain.- 9. Hypnosis and Pain Control.- 10. Acupuncture.- 11. Manual Therapies.- 12. Treatment of Chronic Painful Musculoskeletal Injuries and Diseases with Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT): Regenerative Injection Therapy Principles and Practice.- 13. Interdisciplinary Functional Restoration and Pain Programs.- 14. Pain and Spirituality.- 15. Pain Disparity: Assessment and Traditional Medicine.- 16. Sleep and Chronic Pain.- 17. Empowerment: A Pain Caregiver s Perspective.- 18. Patient and Caregiver s Perspective.- 19. Pain Medicine in Older Adults: How Should It Differ?.- 20. Pain Medicine and Primary Care: The Evolutionof a Population-Based Approach to Chronic Pain as a Public Health Problem.- 21. Pain Care Beyond the Medical Practice Of ce: Utilizing Patient Advocacy, Education, and Support Organizations.- 22. Neonatal Pain.- 23. Assessing Disability in the Pain Patient.- 24. The Double Effect: In Theory and in Practice.- 25. Failure to Treat Pain.