ABC of pain / [edited by] Lesley Colvin and Marie Fallon. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - ix, 112 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - ABC series . - ABC series (Malden, Mass.) .

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiology of chronic pain / Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance -- Pain mechanisms / Carole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker -- Evaluation of the patient in pain / Dennis C. Turk and Kimberly S. Swanson -- Chronic musculoskeletal pain / Paul Dieppe -- Management of low back pain / Lesley A. Colvin and James Campbell -- Neuropathic pain / Lesley A. Colvin and Suzanne Carty -- Visceral pain / James Maybin and Michael G. Serpell -- Post-surgical pain / Susan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson -- Headache and orofacial pain / Anne MacGregor and Joanna M. Zakrzewska -- Cancer pain / Marie Fallon -- Treating pain in patients with drug-dependence problems / Jane C. Ballantyne -- Pain in children / Suellen M. Walker -- Pain in older adults / Debra K. Weiner -- Pain in pregnancy / George R. Harrison -- Psychological aspects of chronic pain / David Gillanders -- Interventional procedures in pain management / Dominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy -- The role of physiotherapy in pain management / Paul J. Watson -- The role of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) in pain management / Mark I. Johnson -- Complementary and alternative strategies / Margaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson -- Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain / Eija Kalso.

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