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Sundaraj

Managing Pain

Understanding Chronic and Cancer Pain for Healthcare Providers and Patients

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-981-9254-46-0
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungstermin: 09.01.2027
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. Januar 2027

This book offers a comprehensive, clinically grounded roadmap for understanding and treating chronic and complex pain conditions. Drawing on five decades of specialist experience, the Author distills contemporary pain science into a structured, accessible resource that guides readers through the mechanisms of pain, the factors that cause it to persist, and the principles behind effective management. The book balances scientific rigor with clarity, ensuring that both health professionals and people living with pain can engage fully with its explanations, frameworks, and applications.

The book’s distinctive strength lies in its practical, multidisciplinary orientation. It maps out the full ecosystem of modern pain care—from individual practitioners to fully integrated pain centres—and explains the roles of pain physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, and addiction specialists. Each chapter includes real clinical cases that demonstrate what successful (and unsuccessful) treatment journeys look like in practice, translating theory into strategies that can be applied in everyday clinical encounters or patient self-management.

Designed to fill a long-standing gap in accessible, evidence-based pain education, Managing Pain - Understanding Chronic and Cancer Pain for Healthcare Providers and Patients equips readers with the tools to improve understanding, communication, and outcomes. It offers actionable guidance on medication use, non-pharmacological interventions, neuromodulation, behavioural approaches, and functional restoration, while clearly addressing common misconceptions that hinder recovery. Above all, the book fosters a compassionate, realistic perspective—one that validates the lived experience of pain and emphasises shared responsibility, teamwork, and hope as foundations for sustainable, patient-centred care.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789819254460
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-981-9254-46-0
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 09.01.2027
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2027
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Seiten: 178
  • Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Introduction.- Part 1. Understanding pain.- Chapter 1. What is pain?.- Chapter 2. The resolution or persistence of pain.- Chapter 3. Other aspects of pain.- Chapter 4. Clinical case study 1: Chronic abdominal pain (Otto’s case).- Part 2. Types of pain clinics and pain practitioners.- Chapter 5. Different types of pain clinics.- Chapter 6. Clinical case study 2: From simple injury to chronic pain (Prasad’s case).- Chapter 7. Pain physicians.- Chapter 8. Psychiatrists.- Chapter 9. Clinical psychologists.- Chapter 10. Clinical case study 3: Severe pain with no diagnosis (Saku’s case).- Chapter 11. Physiotherapists and exercise physiologists.- Chapter 12. Occupational therapists.- Chapter 13. Clinical case study 4: “Fibromyalgia” – beyond the label (Carol’s case).- Chapter 14. Social workers and nurses.- Chapter 15. Addiction medicine specialists.- Chapter 16. Clinical case study 5: Addiction, chronic pain and the limits of recovery (Ari’s case).- Part 3. Medical interventions for pain management.- Chapter 17. Difficult pain conditions.- Chapter 18. Medications.- Chapter 19. Invasive interventional procedures.- Chapter 20. Neuromodulation in pain management.- Chapter 21. Clinical case study 6: The cost of premature intervention (Bill’s case).- Chapter 22. The role of placebos in pain medicine.- Chapter 23. Medicinal cannabis.- Chapter 24. The future of pain medicine.