Table of Contents
Table of Contents
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. General Issues
Chapter 1. The Development of Pain Medicine
Antonella Paladini and Giustino Varrassi
Chapter 2. Societal Issues in Pain Medicine
Norbert van Rooij, Giustino Varrassi and Antonella Paladini
Chapter 3. Controversies in Pain Theories
Shelagh Wright
Chapter 4. Person-Centered Pain Medicine: Tomorrow’s Perspective or Today’s Practice?
Vladimir Romanenko and Yuriy Romanenko
Chapter 5. Visual Analogue Scale: An Old or New Method?
Jaroslava Raudenská and Alena Javùrková
Chapter 6. The Role of the Psychiatrist in the Pain Clinic
Stephen P. Tyrer
Chapter 7. Patient Compliance and Involvement in Adherence to Pain Therapy
Jaroslava Raudenská and Alena Javùrková
Chapter 8. Chronic Non-Cancer Pain, Cognitive Factors and Cognitive Impairment
Jaroslava Raudenská and Alena Javùrková
Chapter 9. Peripheral and Central Presentation of Neuropathic Pain
Paolo Marchettini and Angelo Compare
Part II. Issues and Controversies in Pharmacological Treatment
Chapter 10. Controversies in Acute Pain Management
Alvise Martini, Vittorio Schweiger, Massimo Parolini, Antonella Paladini, Alessandro Rizzardo and Enrico Polati
Chapter 11. Controversies Concerning Botulinum Toxin
Marcela Lippert-Grüner, Stephan Grüner, Kamila Rasova and Axel Schulz
Chapter 12. Cognition, Dependence and Opioids in Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Alena Javùrková and Jaroslava Raudenská
Chapter 13. The Relation between Cognition and Opioids in Chronic Cancer and Non-Cancer Pain
Alena Javùrková and Jaroslava Raudenská
Part III. Issues and Controversies in Non-Pharmacological Treatment
Chapter 14. Waves of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Jaroslava Raudenská and Alena Javùrková
Chapter 15. Controversies in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for Chronic Pain
Shelagh Wright
Chapter 16. Complementary and Alternative Medical Approaches in Chronic Pain Treatment
Hana Neudertová
Chapter 17. Selected Ethical Issues of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Management
Jaroslava Raudenská and Alena Javùrková
Chapter 18. Pain in the Elderly Population with Cognitive Impairment
Luca Cravello, Antonella Paladini and Giustino Varrassi
Chapter 19. Non-Pharmacological and Invasive Pain Management
Vittorio Schweiger, Alvise Martini, Antonella Paladini and Enrico Polati
Chapter 20. Palliative Pain Management at the End of a Patient’s Life
Eberhard Albert Lux
Conclusion
Index