Handbook of Pain Management: A Clinical Companion to Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain

by Ronald Melzack (Editor), Patrick D. Wall (Editor)

The essential companion to the Textbook of Pain , this book provides the pain specialist and trainee with an easy-to-access overview on the management complexities, assessment tools and multiple treatment modalities that are currently available to the physician dealing with the full spectrum of pain syndromes. The emphasis throughout is on the clinical aspects of pain medicine. It contains the core information that the practitioner and trainee needs.

Each chapter is brief and succinctly written, with key information provided in accessible tables and summary charts. The book is divided into two main clinical states (acute, chronic and cancer pain) and therapeutic aspects (pharmacological, surgical, physiotherapy, psychotherapy) - and it presents a rational, multidisciplinary approach to the management of pain.

768 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2003