Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management [Hardcover]

• Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
  
• Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
  
• Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
  
• Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Preface, ix

List of abbreviations, xi

Part 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 1

1 Why evidence matters, 3
Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry

2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14
Alec B. OConnor and Robert H. Dworkin

3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31
Eija Kalso

4 Neurobiology of pain, 42
Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson

5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote, 52
David B. Morris

6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological interventions, 59
Christopher Eccleston

Part 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 69

7 Chronic low back pain, 71
Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes

8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83