Clinician}}}s Guide to Chronic Headache and Facial Pain [Hardcover]

As headache and facial pain are two of the most common medical complaints, it is essential that clinicians are well equipped to handle these issues. Clinicians Guide to Chronic Headache and Facial Painis designed for all clinicians dealing with these syndromes in daily practicewhether in the outpatient, emergency, or ambulatory setting.

Features:

• Presents the advice of 12 experts with considerable experience in headache and facial pain management
• Contains evidence-based chapters derived from past successes and failures and including clear, concise statistical outcomes
• Reviews both traditional and alternative interdisciplinary and interventional pain management therapies to help practitioners choose the best treatment or combination of treatments for their patients
• Offers broad-based coverage of all types of headaches and facial pain syndromes from facial neuralgias to post-traumatic headache
• Includes additional chapters on opioid usage and legal aspects of treatment help to prepare practitioners for a range of possible scenarios

Devoted exclusively to managing chronic headache and facial pain, this book is an essential resource for clinicians.

HEADACHE
Migraine
Roger K. Cady and Kathleen Farmer
Tension-Type Headache
Paul Mathew and B. Lee Peterlin
Posttraumatic Headache
Gary W. Jay
Cervicogenic Headache
Frederick R. Taylor
Cluster Headache
Frederick G. Freitag
Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias
Gary D. Klasser
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Gary W. Jay
Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain
Bernadette Jaeger
Orofacial Pain Syndromes and Other Facial Neuralgias