Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care

1. Biopsychosocial Approaches to Understanding Chronic Pain and Disability
Robert J. Gatchel, Robbie Haggard, Christina Thomas, Krista J. Howard

2. Pain and Intercultural Communication
James Hallenbeck

3. Truth Telling and Palliative Care
Lidia Schapira, David P. Steensma

4. Communication and Palliative Care: E-Health Interventions and Pain Management
Gary L. Kreps

5. Educating Patients and Caregivers About Pain Management: What Clinicians Need to Know
Micke Brown, Amanda Crowe, Stefanie Cousins

6. Pain Assessment Tools in Palliative Cancer Care
Marianne Jensen Hjermstad, Dagny Faxvaag Haugen, Michael I. Bennett, Stein Kaasa

7. Quality Indicators for Pain in Palliative Care
Sydney Dy, Hsien Seow

8. Palliative Care Clinical Trials: Generalizability and Applicability in Hospice and Palliative Care Practice
David C. Currow, Amy P. Abernethy

9. Dynamic Pain Assessment: An Application of Clinical Infometrics to Personalized Pain Treatment and Management
Chih-Hung Chang

10. Assessing Pain and Unmet Need in Patients with Advanced Dementia: The Role of the Serial Trial Intervention (STI)
Christine R. Kovach

11. Pediatric Chronic Pain
Thomas R. Vetter

12. Pain in the Older Person
Bill H. McCarberg, B. Eliot Cole

13. Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury
Jason K. Ough, Devi E. Nampiaparampil

14. Pain in the Battlefield Injured
Anthony Dragovich, Steven P. Cohen

15. Pain, Whiplash Disorder and Traffic Safety
Michele Sterling

16. Chronic Low Back Pain
Stephen May

17. Adult Cancer-Related Pain
Sean Ransom, Timothy P. Pearman, Errol Philip, Dominique Anwar

18. Neuroanatomy of Pain and Pain Pathways
Elie D. Al-Chaer

19. Acute to Chronic Pain: Transition in the Post-Surgical Patient
Roland T. Short, Thomas R. Vetter

20. Pain and the Placebo/Nocebo Effect
Antonella Pollo, Fabrizio Benedetti

21. Sex Differences in Pain Across the Life Course
Edmund Keogh

22. Stress and Pain
Catherine M. Stoney

23. Hope in the Context of Pain and Palliative Care
Richard T. Penson, Lynette Su-Mien Ngo, Gillianne Lai

24. Temporomandibular Disorders and its Relationship with Fibromyalgia
Ana Mirian Velly, Hong Chen, João R. Ferreira, James R. Fricton

25. Phantom Limb Pain
Jens Foell, Herta Flor

26. Pharmacogenetics of Pain: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Lynn R. Webster

27. Pain Imaging
Magdalena R. Naylor, David A. Seminowicz, Tamara J. Somers, Francis J. Keefe

28. Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain
Howard S. Smith, Sukdeb Datta, Laxmaiah Manchikanti

29. Chronic Pain and Opioids
Regina P. Szucs-Reed, Rollin M. Gallagher

30. Nerve Blocks, Trigger Points, and Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Pain
Zirong Zhao, Doris K. Cope

31. Neurosurgical Interventions for the Control of Chronic Pain Conditions
Brittany L. Adler, Mark Yarchoan, John R. Adler

32. Rehabilitation Treatments for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Nalini Sehgal, Frank Falco, Akil Benjamin, Jimmy Henry, Youssef Josephson, Laxmaiah Manchikanti

33. Pain, Depression, and Anxiety in Cancer
Kristine A. Donovan, Lora M. A. Thompson, Paul B. Jacobsen

34. Support Groups for Chronic Pain
Penney Cowan

35. CAM in Chronic Pain and Palliative Care
Jean S. Kutner, Marlaine C. Smith

36. Spiritual Dimensions of Pain and Suffering
Amy Wachholtz, Suzana Makowski

37. Suffering, Hope, and Healing
Jack Coulehan

38. Narrative and Pain: Towards an Integrative Model
David B. Morris

39. Representations of the Body in Pain: Anthropological Approaches
Nora L. Jones

40. The Art of Pain: The Patient’s Perspective of Chronic Pain
Yvonne Palermo

41. Disparities in Pain Management and Palliative Care
Carmen R. Green

42. The Delineation and Explication of Palliative Options of Last Resort
Ben A. Rich

43. Recognition and Resolution of Ethical Barriers to Palliative Care Research
Perry G. Fine

44. How Health Care Reform Can Improve Access to Quality Pain and Palliative Care Services
Amber B. Jones, Diane E. Meier

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Pain Medicine, Health Psychology, Rehabilitation, Neurology