Cathy Stannard & Eija Kalso 
Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management [PDF ebook] 

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various
chronic conditions



* Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain
management providing the information on which to build more
coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient
suffering

* Answers questions about which are the most effective methods,
AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used

* Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence,
and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent

* Written by the world’s leading experts in evidence-based pain
management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Tabella dei contenuti

List of contributors, v

Preface, ix

List of abbreviations, xi

Part 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 1

1 Why evidence matters, 3

Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry

2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14

Alec B. O’Connor and Robert H. Dworkin

3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31

Eija Kalso

4 Neurobiology of pain, 42

Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson

5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is
an anecdote, 52

David B. Morris

6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychological
interventions, 59

Christopher Eccleston

Part 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 69

7 Chronic low back pain, 71

Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes

8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83

Allan Binder

22 Headache, 279

Peer Tfelt-Hansen

23 Chest pain syndromes, 292

Austin Leach and Michael Chester

Part 3 Cancer pain, 309

24 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain, 311

Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto

25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics, 327

Rae Frances Bell

26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain, 337

Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy

27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture,
348

Mark I. Johnson

Part 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence, 367

28 Interventional therapies, 369

Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen

29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina, 400

Mats Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll and
Bengt Linderoth

30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain, 407

James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen Mc Gough
and Michael Schatman

31 Drug treatment of chronic pain, 424

Henry Mc Quay

32 Complementary therapies for pain relief, 434

Edzard Ernst

Index, 439

Circa l’autore

Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic,
Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK



Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and
management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital,
Finland

Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA