Akhtar Purvez

Managing Chronic Pain in an Age of Addiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Chronic pain is challenging to treat in the face of an ongoing opioid crisis. Akhtar Purvez's authoritative account of pain management explores the complex and competing factors involved. He discusses approaches including advanced interventional procedures, non-opioid medications, physical therapy, and behavioral and psychologic support.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781538109236
• ISBN-10: 1538109239
• Artikelnr.: 52417389

Autorenporträt

By Akhtar Purvez MD - Foreword by John Rowlingson MD

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Long Way from Kashmir Chapter One: Medications that
Heal--and Kill Chapter Two: The Opiod Epidemic that is Killing Us Chapter
Three: On Addiction Management Chapter Four: A Mystery and a Prize Chapter
Five: Complex Nature of Chronic Pain Chapter Six: Culture of Pain Chapter
Seven: The Stigma of Pain Chapter Eight: Chronic Pain and Depression
Chapter Nine: Obesity and Chronic Pain Chapter Ten: Finding the Right
Specialist Chapter Eleven: Searching for the Cause of Pain Chapter Twelve:
Fibromyalgia Gets Real Chapter Thirteen: Other Pain Conditions Chapter
Fourteen: Getting Moving--Exercise and Physical Therapy Chapter Fifteen:
Interventional Pain Management Chapter Sixteen Alternative Management
Options Chapter Seventeen: Marijuana--The Mystery Drug Chapter Eighteen:
Pain in the Courtroom Chapter Nineteen: Co-existing with Pain Chapter
Twenty: Toward a Painless Future