Contributors
Color Plate
Introduction to the fourth edition
Patrick D Wall
SECTION 1-BASIC ASPECTS
Peripheral & Central
1. Peripheral neural mechanisms of nociception
Srinivasa N Raja, Richard A Meyer, Matthias Ringkamp, James N Campbell
2. Peripheral mechanisms of inflammatory pain
Jon D Levine, David B Reichling
3. Nociceptive peripheral neurons: cellular properties
Stuart Bevan
4. Trophic factors and pain
Stephen B McMahon, David L H Bennett
5. Pathophysiology of damaged nervers in relation to chronic pain
marshall Devor, Ze''ev Seltzer
6. The dorsal horn: state-dependent sensory processing, plasticity and the generation of pain
Timothy P Doubell, Richard J Mannion, Clifford J Woolf
7. Medulla to thalamus
A D Craig, J O Dostrovsky
8. The image of pain
Martin Ingvar, Jen-Chuen Hsieh
9. Developemental neurobiology of pain
Maria Fitzgerald
1. Central pharmacology of nociceptive transmission
Tony L Yaksh
11. Central nervous system mechanisms of pain modulation
Howard L Fields, Allan I Basbaum
Psychology
12. Emotions and psychobiology
kenneth D Craig
13. Cognitive aspects of pain
Matisyohu Weisenberg
Measurement
14. Assessing transient and persistent pain in animals
Ronald Dubner, Ke ren
15. Measurement and assessment of paediatric pain
patrick J McGrath, Anita M Unruh
16. Studies of pain in human subjects
Richard H Gracely
17. pain measurements in persons in pain
Ronald Melzack, Joel Katz
18. Measures of function and psychology
Amanda C de C Williams
SECTION 2-CLINICAL STATES
Soft tissue, Joints and bones
19. Acute and postoperative pain
Michael Cousins, Ian Power
2. Osteoarthritis
Paul Creamer
21. Rheumatoid arthritis
Malcolm I V Jayson
22. Muscles, tendons and ligaments
Dianne J Newham, Keyyu R Mills
23. Chronic back pain
Donlin M Long
24. Upper extremity pain
Anders E Sola
25. Fibromyalgia
Robert M Benett
Deep and visceral pain
26. Abdominal pain
Laurence M Blendis
27. Heart, vascular and haemopatic pain
Paolo Procacci, Massimo Zoppi, Marco Maresca
28. Chronic pelvic pain
Andrea J Rapkin
29. Obstetric pain
John S McDonald
3. Genitourinary pain
Ursula Wesselmann, Arthur L Burnett
Head
31. Orofacial pain
Yair Sharav
32. Trigeminal, eye and ear pain
Joanna M Zakrzewska
33. Headache
Jean Schoenen, Peter S Sandor
Nerve and root damage
34. Phantom pain and other phenomena after amputation
Troels Staehclin Jensen, Line Nikolajsen
35. Peripheral neuropathies
J W Scadding
36. Complex regional pain syndrome
J W Scadding
37. Nerve root disorders and arachnoiditis
David Dubuisson
Central nervous system
38. Central pain
Jorgen Boivie
39. Spinal cord damage: injury
4. Pain and psychological medicine
Harold Merskey
Special cases
41. Sex and gender differences in pain
karen J Berkley, Anita Holdcroft
42. Cancer pain and palliative care in children
Charles B Berde, John J Collins
43. Pain in the elderly
Lucia Gayliese, Joel Katz, Ronald Melzack
44. Pain in the elderly
Charles E Short
45. Cancer pain: principles of assessment and syndromes
Nathan I Cherny, Russell K Portenoy
46. Cancer, mind and spirit
William Breitbart, Steven D Passik, Barry D Eosenfeld
47. Pain and impending death
Cicely M Saunders, Michael Platt
SECTION 3-THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS
Phsarmacology
48. Methods of therapeutic trials
Henry J McQuay, R A Moore
49. Antipyretic(non-narcotic)analgesics
Kay Nrune, Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
5. Psychotropic drugs
Richard Monks, Harold Merskey
51. Opioids
Robert G Twycross
52. Local anaesthetics and epidurals
HJ McQuay, R A Moore
53. Other drugs including sympathetic blockers
R Munglani, R G Hill
Surgery
54. Root and ganglion surgery
David Dubuisson
55. Disc surgery
Erik Spangfort
56. Orthopaedic surgery
Robert f McLain, James N Weinstein
57. Central neurosurgery
Jan M Gybels, Ron R Tasker
Srimulation
58. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, vibration and acupuncture as pain-relieving measures
Per Hansson, Thomas Lundeberg
59. Spinal cord and brain stimulation
Brian A Simpson
Physiotherapy
6. Ultrasound, shortwave, microwave, laser, superficial heat and cold in the treatment of pain
Justus F Lehmann, Barbara J de Lateur
61. Mobilization, manipulation, massage and exercise for the relidf of musculoskeletal pain
Scott Haldeman, Paul D Hooper
Psychotherapy
62. The placebo and the placebo response
Patrick D Wall
63. A cognitive-behavioral approach to pain management
Dennis C Turk, Akiko Okifuji
64. Behavioral therapy
Francis J Keefe, John C Lefebvre
Special cases
65. Pain in children
Charles B Berde, Bruce Masek
66. Practical issues in the management of cancer pain
Nathan I Cherny, Russell K Portenoy
67. Peripheral neuropathic pain: an approach to management
Howard L Fields, Ralf Baron, Michael C Rowbotham
68. Prevention of disability due to chronic muculoskeletal pain
Steven James Linton
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