Headache and other types of pain have some common characteristics concerning pain generation and chronicity. But some distinct pathophysiological processes are unique to the headache. This book explores pain mechanisms, diagnosis, and management of headache and other chronic pain through sessions of a joint symposium in 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, of IASP and the International Headache Society as part of the Global Year Against Headache. The goals of the meeting were to stimulate discussions about pain from different angles, establish potential cooperation and synergies between IASP and IHS, and most importantly, involve young scientists and help them build networks to advance their work. This book represents the current state of scientific discussions of the respective fields in both pain areas. It strictly follows the structure of the meeting´s topics, which were chosen based on similarity of research interest of both fields. More than 100 young scientists and clinicians from 22 countries participated, with speakers from both societies represented in all sessions.

Headache and Pain

Medical Books

Ralf Baron

Arne May

Pharmacology

IASP Press

Most patients with pain are treated with pharmacological agents. For many, currently available drugs provide inadequate management. This book presents reviews of recent developments in our knowledge of sympatholytics, membrane stabilizing agents, opioids, anti-depressants, and antagonists to excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters. Clinical data on efficacy of these drugs for the neural mechanisms underlying chronic pain syndromes are reviewed. This book is recommended for clinicians caring for patients with chronically painful diseases, all those interested in the pharmacology of analgesic medications, and those interested in neuropathic pain.

Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Chronic Pain: New Concepts and Critical Issues (Progress in Pain Research and Management, Volume 1)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fields Ed, Howard L

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Sickle Cell Pain is a panoramic, in-depth exploration of every scientific, human, and social dimension of this cruel disease. This comprehensive, definitive work is unique in that it is the only book devoted to sickle cell pain, as opposed to general aspects of the disease. The 752-page book links sickle cell pain to basic, clinical, and translational research, addressing various aspects of sickle pain from molecular biology to the psychosocial aspects of the disease. Supplemented with patient narratives, case studies, and visual art, Sickle Cell Pain’s scientific rigor extends through its discussion of analgesic pharmacology, including abuse-deterrent formulations. The book also addresses in great detail inequities in access to care, stereotyping and stigmatization of patients, the implications of rapidly evolving models of care, and recent legislation and litigation and their consequences.

Sickle Cell Pain, Second Edition

Samir K. Ballas

MD FACP FASCP DABPM FAAPM

This volume includes plenary papers and selected abstracts from free communications presented at the 7th World Congress on Pain, held August 22-27, 1993, in Paris, France. Main session topics include: psychologic factors related to chronic pain; the nociceptor as a dynamic entity; central nervous system plasticity: implications for pain perception; neuropathic pain; opioids and analgesia; pharmacology of pain control; headache; central pain; nociceptive processing; pain and age. Special topics include: the pharmacology of pain: twenty-five years of hope, despair, and hope; death of pain: pain, suffering, and ethics; the World Health Organization program in cancer pain relief and palliative care; pain management: quality assurance and changing practice; and perspectives on management of back pain in primary care.

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain (Progress in Pain Research and Management Series)

Gerald F. Gebhart

Donna L. Hammond

Troels S. Jensen

Temporomandibular disorders and chronic orofacial pain conditions are common sources of frustration to patients and clinicians. This book reviews current research on the mechanisms of temporomandibular and other orofacial pain conditions of muscle and joint origin, considers the biologic responses associated with temporomandibular disorders, and provides scientifically based recommendations on diagnosis and treatment. Useful to clinicians who treat patients with these conditions and researchers interested in the pathophysiology of muscle and joint pain.

Temporomandibular Disorders and Related Pain Conditions (Progress in Pain Research and Management)

Sessle Ed, Barry J

Dentistry

Persistent pain is a common and frustrating problem for individuals involved in patient care. Among the most challenging pain syndromes are those associated with sympathetic nervous system abnormalities. These include reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, shoulder-hand syndrome, and a variety of neuropathic pains. This volume represents the combined efforts of distinguished clinicians and basic scientists to achieve a synthesis of current knowledge relating the basic neural mechanisms of pain and sympathetic function, the clinical characteristics, and the diagnosis of these pain syndromes. This concise review of the problem will be helpful to health care professionals who deal with chronic pain patients and to neuroscientists working in the areas of visceral, musculoskeletal, inflammatory, and neuropathic pain.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: A Reappraisal (Progress in Pain Research and Management Series)

Wilfrid Jänig

Michael D. Stanton-Hicks

New research tools in molecular neurobiology contribute enormously to our understanding of neural plasticity, receptor regulation, and transcriptional regulation of genes. The explosive progress in these areas sets the stage for significant advances in developing novel therapeutic approaches for pain. Internationally preeminent scientists describe exciting developments in our knowledge of afferent pain neurons such as altered spinal connections and changes in transmitter and receptor complement. Also described are growth-factor contributions to inflammation and the cloning of genes for opioid receptors and sodium channels. These and other developments described in this book provide a vivid glimpse at the promising future for pain research and treatment.

Molecular Neurobiology of Pain: 9 (Progress in Pain Research and Management)

Science & Math

Borsook, David

Biological Sciences

Exciting research initiatives on pain measurement have developed in recent years. In this book, some of the most productive investigators from Europe, North America, and Australia share their understanding of the different approaches to the field. Basic and clinical science as well as different disciplines of clinical practice in psychology, nursing, and medicine are represented. Physiological, anatomical (imaging), behavioral, and self-help techniques of pain measurement are discussed.Chapter topics include: roles of measurement in pain management and research; psychometric issues in the measurement of pain in children; neurophysiological and neurobiological correlates of supraspinal pain processing: measurement techniques; flexion reflex properties in the human infant: a measure of spinal sensory processing in the newborn; physiological measures of pain; behavioral measures of pain; facial display of pain; measurement of pain by self-report; composite measures of pain; and putting pain measurement into clinical practice.

Measurement of Pain in Infants and Children (Progress in Pain Research and Management)

Finley Allen G Ed

Medicine

Sickle cell disease, an inherited abnormality of hemoglobin, produces a variety of painful syndromes. The pain can be somatic, visceral, acute, chronic, persistent, or recurrent. This book reviews recent basic clinical phenomena and underlying disease mechanisms. Problems associated with sickle cell pain and approaches to its management are discussed in detail. This book will be useful to professionals who treat patients with sickle cell pain, including primary-care physicians, pain management specialists, hematologists, nurses, social workers, patient advocates, and house staff. Researchers interested in the patho-physiology of sickle cell pain will also find this book stimulating.

Sickle Cell Pain (Progress in Pain Research and Management)

Evolution

In this semi-autobiographical work, pioneer clinician-scientist William K. Livingston (1892-1966) guides us through critical early developments in the field of pain research and treatment. Pain and Suffering offers much more than historical significance. Its valuable clinical material serves as a guide to those who strive constantly to improve their own clinical skills. Curiosity, compassion, and concern provide the framework for Livingston's astute clinical observations, enabling him to improve patient treatment through deeper understanding of the neural mechanisms of pain. Above all, he relied on the patient's reported experience, and in this book his narrative gift allows us to witness that dynamic interchange between doctor and patient.

Pain and Suffering

Livingston, William K

Biographies & Memoirs

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