Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course / edited by Rhonda J. Moore.

This book takes both a biobehavioral and a lifespan approach to understanding long-term and chronic pain, and intervening to optimize patients’ functioning. Rich in clinical diversity, chapters explore emerging areas of interest (computer-based interventions, fibromyalgia, stress), ongoing concerns...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Moore, Rhonda J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Chronic Pain and Disability
  • Part I: Communication and Pain
  • Pain and Intercultural Communication
  • Truth telling and Palliative Care
  • Communication and Palliative Care: E-health Interventions and Pain Management
  • Educating Patients and Caregivers about Pain Management: : What clinicians need to know
  • Part II: Assessment
  • Pain Assessment Tools in Palliative Care and Cancer
  • Quality Indicators for Pain in Palliative Care
  • Palliative Care Clinical Trials: Generalizability and Applicability in Hospice and Palliative Care Practice
  • Dynamic Pain Assessment: An Application of Clinical Infometrics to Personalized Pain Treatment and Management
  • Assessing Pain and Unmet Needs in Patients with Advanced Dementia: The Role of the Serial Trial Intervention (STI)
  • Part III: Common Pain Conditions
  • Pediatric Chronic Pain
  • Pain in the Older Person
  • Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Pain in the Battlefield Injured
  • Pain, Whiplash Disorder and Traffic Safety
  • Chronic Low Back Pain
  • Adult Cancer-Related Pain
  • Part IV. Mechanisms
  • Neuroanatomy of Pain and Pain Pathways
  • Acute to Chronic Pain: Transitions in the Post Surgical Patient
  • Pain and the Placebo/Nocebo Effect
  • Sex Differences in Pain across the Life Course
  • Stress and Pain
  • Hope in the context of pain and palliative care
  • Temporomandibular Disorders and Fibromyalgia
  • Phantom Limb Pain
  • Pharmacogenetics of Pain: the Future of Personalized Medicine
  • Pain Imaging
  • Part V. Interventions
  • Evidence-based Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain
  • Chronic Pain and Opioids
  • Nerve Blocks, Trigger Points, and Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Pain
  • Neurosurgical Interventions for the Control of Chronic Pain Conditions
  • Rehabilitation Treatments for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
  • Part VI: Psychosocial, Complementary and Alternative (CAM) and Spiritual Approaches for the Control of Symptoms
  • Pain, Depression and Anxiety in Cancer
  • Support groups for Chronic Pain
  • CAM in Chronic Pain and Palliative Care
  • Spiritual Dimensions of Pain and Suffering
  • Part VII: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Suffering, Hope, and Healing
  • Narrative and Pain: Towards an Integrative Model
  • Representations of the Body in Pain: Anthropological Approaches
  • The Art of Pain: the Patient’s Perspective of Chronic Pain
  • Part VIII: Ethical Issues and Future Directions
  • Disparities in Pain Management and Palliative Care
  • The Delineation and Explication of Palliative Options of Last Resort
  • Recognition and Resolution of Ethical Barriers to Palliative Care Research
  • How Health Care Reform can Improve Access to Quality Pain and Palliative Care Services.