Symptom Oriented Pain Management

by Dwarkadas K Baheti, SANJAY BAKSHI, Sanjeeva Gupta

This book aims to provide detail about the “Symptom Oriented Pain Management”. This book is very useful for pain physicians. Pain physicians often face the dilemma of how to reach to a correct diagnosis starting from a particular symptom such as backache, headache, neck pain, neuropathic pain, ischemic pain, or cancer pain. It is mandatory for pain physicians to understand and learn techniques to accurately diagnose the etiology and mechanisms of pain which facilitates appropriate management with pharmacotherapy and where-ever necessary with the right interventional procedure. Each chapter of this book provides diagnoses, etiology, mechanisms of pain, clinical examination, sign and symptoms, and treatment. This book provides to help pain physicians reach a diagnosis to facilitate management with maximum pain relief. This book is organized into 15 sections which are further divided into 54 chapters. These sections include basics of pain management, clinical examination and evaluation, understanding imaging modalities for pain patient, cervical/neck pain, low back pain, urogenital and pelvic pain, cancer pain, neuropathic pain, ischemic pain, myofascial pain, scar pain, challenging pain, physiotherapy, psychiatry and allied therapy.

524 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2017