Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moore, Rhonda J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pain Medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Medicine/Public Health, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78323-9

Biobehavioral Approaches in Pain Edited by Rhonda J. Moore, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Pain is a common symptom, yet it is frequently underevaluated and undertreated. It is difficult to define, describeand sometimes to prove. Its pain, and suspicions of exaggerations often ad...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Foreword
• Introduction: The challenge of pain and suffering in the global context
• Acute versus Chronic Pain: what are the differences?
• The Neuroanatomy of Pain and Pain Pathways
• Genetics of chronic pain
• Pain and the Placebo Effect
• Narrative approaches to understanding the meaning of the pain experience
• Psychosocial and Partner-Assisted Approaches to the Management of Pain
• Sex Differences in Pain Perception
• Children and Pain
• Pain in Older People
• Pharmacoeconomics: economic and social costs of pain
• Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathies (CIPN): A biobehavioral approach
• Pain in Patients with HIV: role of health services research
• Pain Assessment, treatment and evaluation
• Phantom Limb Pain
• Substance Abuse issues in the treatment of Pain Patients
• Uses of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Pain
• Imaging modalities for pain
• Pain, Whiplash Disorder and Traffic Safety: A Biobehavioural Approach
• Gene Therapies for Pain
• Pain and Palliative Care
• Pain in Society: ethical perspectives and Public Policy Concerns .