DESCRIPTION:
Comprehensive in scope and invaluable for both practitioners and students, Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist, 2nd Edition, thoroughly covers the wide range of issues requiring the interdisciplinary management of pain. Joined by more than 20 international contributors, Dr. Kathleen Sluka provides a practical, evidence-based framework for understanding the basics of pain mechanisms and management. This highly regarded, updated text covers the basics of pain neurobiology and reviews evidence on the mechanisms of action of physical therapy treatments, as well as their clinical effectiveness in specific pain syndromes.
The second edition features:
- Basic Concepts and Mechanisms - provides a clear infrastructure for the rest of the book.
- Physical Therapy Pain Management - focuses attention on pain regardless of medical diagnosis, using evidence to support clinical decision making.
- Interdisciplinary Pain Management - includes both medical management of pain and psychological approaches to pain.
- Case Studies - discuss a series of pain syndromes using an evidence-based approach.
CONTENTS:
Section I: Basic Concepts and Mechanisms
Chapter 1. Introduction: Definition, Concepts, and Models of Pain
Chapter 2. Peripheral Pathways Involved in Nociception
Chapter 3. Central Nociceptive Pathways
Chapter 4. Motor Control and Pain
Chapter 5. Individual Differences and Pain Variability
Section II: Physical Therapy Pain Management
Chapter 6. Pain Assessment
Chapter 7. General Principles of Physical Therapy Practice
Chapter 8. The Specific Influences of Non-Specific Effects
Chapter 9. Education and Self-Management for Pain Control
Chapter 10. Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia: An Evidence-Based Review
Chapter 11. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Interferential Therapy (IFT)
Chapter 12. Overview of Other Electrophysical Agents including Thermal Modalities
Chapter 13. Manual Therapy
Section III: Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Chapter 14. Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Chapter 15. Medical Management of Pain
Chapter 16. Psychological Approaches in Pain Management
Section IV: Pain Syndromes
Chapter 17. Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Chapter 18. Temporomandibular Disorders and Headache
Chapter 19. Low Back Pain
Chapter 20. Neck Pain
Chapter 21. Neuropathic Pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Chapter 22. Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Chapter 23. Pain Associated with Central Nervous System Disorders: Central Neuropathic Pain
Chapter 24. Case Studies
