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Springer Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain 1st Editon 2010 Softbound by Rhonda J. Moore
Pain is a common symptom, yet it is frequently underevaluated and undertreated. It is difficult to define, describe—and sometimes to prove. It’s pain, and suspicions of exaggerations often add further insult to a patients’ injuries. Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain translates this highly subjective experience—and its physical, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions—into practical insights key to transforming the field of pain management.
This pathbreaking volume synthesizes a rich knowledge base from across disciplines, including neurobiologic, genetic, biobehavioral, clinical, narrative, substance abuse, health services,ethical and policy perspectives, for a deeper understanding of the impact of pain on individual lives and the larger society. Its international panel of contributors highlights special issues and review best practice guidelines, from placebo effects to cancer, Whiplash Associated Disorders to pain imaging to complementary medicine, phantom limb pain to gene therapies to AIDS. Among the topics covered:
The distinction between acute and chronic pain: is it clinically useful?
Improving clinical assessment of patients with pain.
Age and sex differences in pain.
The what, how and why of the placebo and nocebo effect
Psychosocial and partner-assisted biopsychosocial interventions for disease-related pain
Substance abuse issues in pain treatment.
The personal, social and economic costs of chronic pain.
Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain offers clinical and health professionals, psychologists, as well as specialists in pain management or palliative care, new directions in their ongoing dialogue with patients. Given the prevalence of pain in the general population, it should also interest researchers and students in the field of public health. The Experience of Pain and Suffering from Acute and Chronic Pain.- The Neuroanatomy of Pain and Pain Pathways.- The Genetic Epidemiology of Pain.- Pain and the Placebo Effect.- The Narrative Approach to Pain.- Understanding and Enhancing Patient and Partner Adjustment to Disease-Related Pain: A Biopsychosocial Perspective.- Sex Differences in Pain.- Pain in Children.- Pain in the Older Person.- Healthcare Economic Evaluation of Chronic Pain: Measuring the Economic, Social and Personal Impact of Chronic Pain and its Management.- Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathies (CIPNs): A Biobehavioral Approach.- Pain and Use of Health Services Among Persons Living with HIV.- Pain Measurement.- Phantom Pain.- Pain: Substance Abuse Issues in the Treatment of Pain.- The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Pain.- Imaging Modalities for Pain.- Pain, Transportation Issues and Whiplash.- Gene Therapy for Chronic Pain.- Palliative Care and Pain Management in the United States.- Pain in Society: Ethical Issues and Public Policy Concerns.