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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
By Akhtar Purvez MD - Foreword by John Rowlingson MD
Summary
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.
