Dieses Buch soIl fUr die praktische Ausbildung und das klinische Training der Akupunktur eine klar strukturierte und einfache theoretische Grundlage schaffen. Wir haben uns im wesentlichen an die Ausbildungsinhalte der Akademie fUr Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin Peking und der Acupuncture Foundation of Sri Lanka gehalten. Der Seniorautor, Prof. Dr. A. Jayasuriya, ist Chef der Akupunkturabteilung des Colombo South General Hospital in Sri Lanka, in dem in den vergangenen Jahren uber 30000 Patienten mit Akupunktur behandelt wurden, und Prasident des International College of Acupuncture in Colombo, wo bereits 3000 Arzte aus aller Welt in Akupunktur unterrichtet wurden. Die drei anderen Autoren habenjeweils in mehreren langeren Aufenthalten an diesem Krankenhaus gearbeitet und in Europa Akupunktur praktiziert, gelehrt und daruber publiziert. Ausgangspunkt des Buchs war ein Werk des Seniorautors in englischer Sprache. Da dieses Buch jedoch auf den Gebrauch in der dritten Welt hin geschrieben war und fUr europaische Verhaltnisse in vieler Hinsicht nicht ideal erschien, haben wir eine grundliche Neubearbeitung des Stoffs unternommen, so daB letzten Endes ein weitgehend neues Lehr buch entstand. In der Nomenklatur haben wir uns an die Angaben der Akademie fUr Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin Peking und an die offiziell beschlossene Pin-Yin-Transskription der chinesischen Zeichen in alphabetische Schrift gehalten."

Akupressur ist ein wichtiges Teilgebiet der jahrtausendealten chinesischen Medizin. Die chinesische Medizin ist vor allem durch die Akupunktur in den westlichen Ui. ndern bekannt geworden, insbesondere durch die spektakularen Wirkungen bei der Schmerz therapie chronischer Erkrankungen und bei der Anasthesie fur Operation en am wa chen Patienten. Akupressur ist die gezielte Massage der Akupunkturpunkte, dabei wird Heilwirkung bei leichten und mittelschweren Erkrankungen und StOrungen erzielt. Seit der Antike wird die Akupressur zur Selbstbehandlung angewandt und nirnmt heute in der VR China einen wichtigen Platz in der medizinischen Versorgung der Bevolkerung ein. Auch im Westen hat man in den letzten Jahren die Vorzuge der tradition ellen chi nesischen Medizin erkannt und bringt darum der Akupunktur und Akupressur steigen des Interesse entgegen. Akupressur ist frei von Nebenwirkungen und bietet gerade des halb Vorteile gegenuber den gebrauchlichen schmerzstillenden Medikamenten, die be kanntlich oft mit Nebenwirkungen behaftet sind. Auch die Moxibustion, das Anwarmen von Akupunkturpunkten zur Steigerung der Korperkrafte bei Schwachezustanden und SchwachestOrungen ist ein wichtiges Teilge biet der chinesischen Medizin. Die Moxibustion kann, nach Absprache mit dem behan delnden Arzt, vom Patienten selbst durchgefuhrt werden. Das hier dargestellte Lehrkonzept fur Akupressur beruht auf der Erfahrung, die bei der Lehrtatigkeit von Hunderten von Arzten in Deutschland und Asien auf dem Gebiet der chinesischen Medizin und speziell der Akupunktur gesammelt wurde. In diesem Akupressurbuch sind nur die wichtigsten Erkrankungen und Gesund heitsstOrungen dargestellt.

Die DurchfUhrung von Nervenblockaden hat sich als uberaus wirksame MaBnahme er- wiesen und bringt insbesondere in der Bekampfung von Schmerzen eine Reihe von Vorteilen fUr den Patienten. Es hat sich allerdings gezeigt, daB auch einige Nachteile in dieser Art der Behandlung liegen. Ais gravierendst wird diesbezuglich angesehen, daB der Patient von jenem Arzt, der die Blockaden durchfUhrt, abhangig wird und sich bei Abwesenheit dieses Therapeuten verlassen vorkommt, ja verlassen ist, da niemand im Faile neuerlich auftretender Schmerzen so effizient helfen kann. Dazu kommt, daB manchmal an der Therapie mit Nervenblockaden interessierte Arzte die hierzu n6tigen Voraussetzungen nicht mitbringen oder anschaffen. Daraus resultiert, daB bei manchen Anfangern in dieser Technik wesentlich haufiger als n6tig Nebenwirkungen auftreten und die Effizienz doch leidet. Beide diese Nachteile lassen sich durch Anwendung von elektrischem Strom (in ganz spezifischer Weise) umgehen. Das soil nicht heiBen, daB wir von pharmakologischen Nervenblockaden abraten, ganz im Gegenteil. Allerdings benutzen auch wir fUr manche Zustande eher elektrische Blockaden (siehe Haufigkeits- tabelle). Vorerst muB jedoch bewiesen werden, daB unter den verschiedenen Arten der Anwendung des elektrischen Stromes von der Haut aus ganz bestimmte Stromfor- men bzw. Reizformen eine Wirkung auf Nerven haben. Denn nur bei Nachweis einer solchen Wirkung lassen sich die Prinzipien der Nervenblockade durch Lokalanaesthe- tika auch auf Anwendung des elektrischen Stromes ubertragen und die Vorteile der Blockadentechnik auf Behandlung mittels elektrischem Strom anwenden. Wie dies m6glich wird, soli im Abschnitt "Grundsatzliches" nunmehr erlautert werden.

The incidence of neuropathic pain continues to rise, yet it is an affliction often misdiagnosed or inadequately treated. Although in recent years considerable research has been dedicated to understanding its mechanisms, there have been few advances in treatment. The contributors to this book are internationally renowned leaders in the fields of peripheral neuropathy and neuropathic pain. They discuss clinical approaches to diagnosis and treatment of neuropathic pain, its underlying mechanisms, and strategies for prevention. In addition, chapters cover timely issues, including legal and ethical concerns surrounding pain treatment, the status of clinical trial methods, and educational efforts. Comprehensive yet concise, this book serves as a guide for diagnostic approaches and treatment of neuropathic pain for the student, resident, practicing physician, researcher, and specialist.

It has been estimated that 60 million Americans suffer from pain. There has been an explosion in pain research, new pharmaceuticals, the recognition of complementary and alternative therapies, interventional techniques and surgery, professional pain societies and providers with expertise in pain management. The most common condition seen in primary care settings and in pain clinics is lower back pain. Several studies indicate that primary care providers feel ill-prepared to deal with pain issues. Back and neck pain, myofascial pain, whiplash and fibromyalgia are particularly challenging and troublesome for this group. There are multiple reasons for this discomfort, including lack of training, absence of guidelines, concerns about addiction risk and many other issues. As part of the Oxford American Pain Library, this practical handbook is designed to serve as a concise yet authoritative resource on diagnosing and treating back and neck pain. Co-authored by two primary care physicians and a nurse practitioner with extensive expertise in pain medicine and management, the book is tailored to the needs of busy health care professionals treating patients in the primary care setting, and focuses on essential clinical information for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in family practice, and internal medicine. In addition to covering all aspects of diagnosis, treatment-both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, and ongoing management of back and neck pain, the handbook also features a section dedicated to similar conditions of myofascial pain, whiplash and fibromyalgia. In addition to covering traditional clinical areas such as pathogenesis, co-morbidities, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, the book also presents an array of practical tools and features such as screening tools for easy diagnosis, disability assessment tools, tips on best questions to ask, useful checklists and additional patient resource information. The pocket-sized format, concise chapters, multiple charts and graphs and bulleted highlights are ideal for all providers needing a quick, easily accessible, portable reference on back and neck pain.

Dieses Buch wendet sich vor allem an Arzte in Klinik und Praxis, aber auch an fortgeschrittene Medizinstudenten, die einen Uberblick uber das Themengebiet Schmerz und vor allem die medikamentose Schmerztherapie gewinnen wollen. Namhafte Experten haben das komplexe Werk aus drei Blickrichtungen bearbeitet:
- Pathophysiologie des Schmerzes
- Pharmakologie der Analgetika sowie anderer eingesetzter Pharmaka
- Praktischer klinischer Teil mit Kasuistiken.
Ein Glossar mit wichtigen Begriffen zur Schmerztherapie, eine Liste von Wirkstoffen und Handelsnamen sowie Hinweise auf weiterfuhrende Literatur und eine Liste nutzlicher Adressen vervollstandigen das Buch."

When a person suffers from advanced, progressive illness, palliative care -- treatments that improve the physical and psychological quality of life of patients and their families -- can be just as important as treatments that aim to slow or prevent disease progression. Aimed at general practitioners and trainees in the field, Palliative Care in Clinical Practice offers an accessible and practical introduction to palliative medicine, including a chapter devoted to each of the key areas of symptom management. Clearly and concisely written and fully illustrated throughout, it will be a useful resource for all healthcare professionals who wish to gain an understanding of this important aspect of medicine.

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked.
Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and logical in its layout, Pain is the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go.

Second only to the common cold, pain is the most common reason for health care visits. It results in significant personal and social costs to individuals, and economic costs to society. Chronic pain has been estimated to cost more than 100 billion annually in the United States, and its estimated annual cost to European countries ranges from 1.1 to nearly 50 billion Euros (nearly 1.5 billion to over 60 billion dollars). In order to treat pain, clinicians need to be able to assess pain and its effects on functioning. However, 100s, if not 1000s, of different measures of pain and pain-related domains exist. Surprisingly, despite the fact that much is known about the psychometrics strengths and weaknesses of existing measures, there does not yet exist a simple pain assessment guide that describes the most useful and psychometrically sound pain measures for health care providers. This book fills this need.

The First International Symposium on "Pain and Kampo (Japanese Herbal Medicine)" took place in Tokyo in October, 1992. More than 700 registrants participated, with 12 registrants from seven overseas countries. This book contains summaries of the presentations at this meeting and is published in order to provide up-to-date information to a much wider audience. In China, traditional herbal medicine has been used for more than 3000 years while in Japan, its use has been documented for more than 1000 years, albeit with some changes to the original Chinese formulations. Recently there has been a revival of interest in herbal medicines for several reasons. There is a rapid growth in the number of senior citizens who frequently require the attention of modern medicine. In particular, there has been an increase in the number of patients who suffer from chronic diseases which are difficult to treat, e.g., arteriosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic pain syndromes, etc. It has become evident that traditional Oriental herbal medicines could playa role in the management of these and other conditions.

Osteoporose, Rheuma, Fibromyalgie und andere Erkrankungen des Bewegungssystems sind haufig mit Schmerzen und Funktionsstoerungen verbunden. In dem Werk prasentieren die Autoren einen Therapieansatz, der sich nicht an der Diagnose, sondern an Funktionsstoerungen orientiert. Wird diese funktionelle Therapie gezielt angewendet, kann sie die Schmerzen rasch lindern. Fur alle AErzte, die Patienten mit Schmerzen des Bewegungssystems behandeln: Schmerztherapeuten, Orthopaden, Neurologen, Allgemeinmediziner, AErzte fur Physikalische und fur Manuelle Medizin.

In this impassioned and hopeful book, David Biro reveals how to break through the silent wall of suffering physical and psychological that all too often accompanies pain and illness. Drawing together compelling stories from patients and insights from some of our greatest thinkers, writers, and artists, Listening to Pain eloquently demonstrates how lan- guage can alleviate the loneliness of pain, paving the way for empathy and effective treatment. Originally published in hardcover under the title The Language of Pain."

Ankylosing Spondylitis in Clinical Practice is a concise, practical guide on the diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition. This book is aimed at clinicians who treat Ankylosing Spondylitis. It provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the diagnosis, management and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis.

Advances over the past two decades have enabled physicians to revolutionize the manner in which they can assess and manage children's pain. Thirty years ago it was thought that young children did not experience pain and therefore it was not necessary to treat it. Today professionals from a variety of disciplines have contributed data that have revolutionized medical perspectives. Technological advances now enable doctors to treat acute pain in fetuses, premature neonates, infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with increasing precision and efficacy. Research highlighting the context of chronic pain has moved them away from a mind-body dichotomy and toward an integrated, holistic perspective that leads to substantial improvement in children's adaptive functioning as well as subjective discomfort.

This book covers these topics and is intended for anyone who provides medical care to children. Each chapter provides an overview of the problem, followed by a "hands on" description of relevant assessment and intervention strategies. The role of the primary care practitioner is highlighted, both as a front-line resource as well as a consumer of specialized pediatric pain treatment services. Each chapter ends with a summary and specific bullet points highlighting the most central elements, making for quick and easy reference.

"This book is a comprehensive, very specific, clinical guide for health care providers..."--Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

"This well-written and well-organized book is a much needed 'middle ground' resource between oversimplified introductions to pain management and a thick textbook."--Clinical Nurse Specialist

"The "Compact Clinical Guide to Acute Pain Management" provides an excellent overview of the process of pain management for adult patients in any setting."--Critical Care Nurse

This book provides much-needed guidelines that are presented in an easy-to-use, systematic format for quick access to core concepts on acute pain management. It is designed to help busy practitioners accurately assess pain in a variety of patient populations, and select patient-appropriate medications and interventions to achieve optimal pain management for adult patients.

Intended for use in primary care, internal medicine, and acute- and long-term care settings, this book covers the topics of acute pain assessment, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, current information from national guidelines, along with regional anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled analgesia, and epidural pain management. Key Features:

Offers important new perspective on combination use of pain scales to accurately predict individual pain management needs for more customized and effective management Delivers information on how to treat acute pain in hospitalized patients who also suffer from chronic pain and substance abuse Offers new information on opioid polymorphisms and their surprising effect on pain medication effectiveness Includes a special chapter on managing pain in difficult-to-treat patient populations

This is an essential reference for primary care providers in clinics, hospitals, specialty care, and critical care to assess pain in general populations and provide tips for performing pain assessment on patients with acute pain.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title "I would recommend this great little book for nurses who wish to carry a book with them in their clinical practice. It's a great addition to the growing list of books addressing pain in pediatrics."--Pediatric Pain Letter

" This book] is a practical guide to pediatric pain assessment and management for the advanced practice nurse and primary caregivers who are interested in caring for patients with pain, but whose care specialty is not pain management. For the nurses whose specialty is pain management, this text provides a quick pediatric reference of our knowledge and tools of our trade. Even though it is a 'compact guide, ' this text is well referenced with current key position statements, clinical practice guidelines, and primary references of the latest pediatric pain management research."--Pain Management Nursing

Presented in a concise, systematic format, this clinically oriented book provides nurses and physicians quick access to up-to-date information on how to assess and manage pain in infants and children, including adolescents who suffer from acute and chronic pain conditions. This book provides a comprehensive review of medications for infants and children as well as nonpharmacological interventions to achieve optimal pain management for young patients undergoing needle-related procedures as well as painful conditions related to surgery, trauma, cancer, sickle cell disease, and chronic pain. Key Features:

Describes the consequences of untreated pain on development of children Summarizes pain assessment tools recommended for verbal and preverbal patients as well as those who are critically or terminally ill Provides general principles and specific dosing recommendations for non-opioids, opioids, and coanalgesics for optimal safety and effective reduction in pain Describes the indications, medications, and ongoing care and monitoring related to the increasing use of epidural and continuous peripheral nerve block infusions for pediatric patients Provides information on how to use age-appropriate strategies for cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and physical approaches to reduce pain Includes useful resources, such as websites, and other tools, such as pain diaries and patient education information, to support multidisciplinary teams and parents who care for children with acute and chronic pain

Designated a Doody's Core Title

"This is an excellent resource that is essential for all primary care providers." Score: 100, 5 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews

" P]ractitioners who oversee the treatment of chronic pain in the adult population will likely find this new reference an invaluable addition to their bookshelf."--Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

""This book is highly recommended; it will be an indispensable addition to the professional library of every nurse practitioner who manages patients with chronic, persistent pain." "

Margaret H. Granitto, RN, MSN, CRNP Georgetown University
School of Nursing and Health Studies

Presented in a clear, systematic format, this clinically oriented book provides nurses and physicians with quick access to much-needed pain management guidelines. With a unique focus on treatment options for patients with chronic persistent pain, this guide provides critical guidance on managing difficult conditions such as fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain.

The text expertly assists practitioners in assessing pain in a variety of patient populations and provides professional insight on selecting patient-appropriate medications and interventions to achieve optimal pain management for adult patients. Key Features:

Contains the newest guidelines on how to use a combination of pain screening tools to accurately assess the nature, intensity, and occurrence of patient pain Provides information on new medications and combinations of medications to use for chronic pain Presents essential information on safe prescribing and screening tools such as the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) and screening tools for aberrant behaviors Provides strategies for utilizing nontraditional treatment options such as acupuncture, energy therapies, and psychological and coping strategies

Il dolore cronico vulvare, o vulvodinia, e una patologia diffusa che puo avere un forte impatto sul benessere della donna. Nonostante sia frequentemente osservata nella pratica clinica quotidiana, resta un disturbo trascurato e puo richiedere anche molti anni per essere correttamente

diagnosticato. Il volume offre un panorama conciso delle ultimissime acquisizioni sulla diagnosi e la cura della vulvodinia e delle sue numerose comorbilita, ha un formato facile da leggere, con molti consigli pratici, e aiuta ad affrontare rapidamente ed efficacemente tutte le complesse e delicate problematiche

che sottendono il disturbo. Questo libro si rivolge ai medici motivati a migliorare la qualita di vita delle donne che soffrono di vulvodinia, e in particolare ai Ginecologi e ai Medici di Medicina Generale.

In the past years, neuroimaging techniques provided a better insight into mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Chronic pain does not develop as a simple direct result of activity in nociceptive fibres following a traumatic event, but rather represents a consequence of dynamic plastic changes in sensory, affective and cognitive systems and related neuronal networks. The functional neural changes associated with pain include both adaptive compensatory changes, as well as maladaptive changes that may contribute to dysfunction of involved anatomical and physiological systems. In accordance, research findings indicated that patients with some chronic pain syndromes developed functional reorganisation of certain brain structures (for example in somatosensory -- or motor cortices). Since research studies have shown that reversal of pathological cortical changes in chronic-pain patients is accompanied by pain relief, a modulation of brain excitability seems to be a promising approach to address pain related to central hyperexcitability. This book discusses this topic and how brain stimulation techniques aim to selectively enhance adaptive patterns of neural activity, suppress the maladaptive ones, and restore the balance in disturbed neuronal networks.

This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need. Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change focuses on America's national crisis in pain management caused by the widening divergence between the enormous contributions of opioids ("narcotics") to pain management in the clinical setting and the mistaken belief that they are dangerous, highly addictive drugs. After dissecting the strategy and tactics of the War on Drugs from medical, historical, legal, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives, Guy Faguet MD indicts the 40-year-long War on Drugs for having failed to stem the supply of illicit drugs in America despite expenditures of half a trillion dollars, despite violating the basic human right to pain relief of tens of millions of American chronic pain sufferers, and despite fomenting organized crime, government corruption, racial injustice, and social disruption in both the United States and the producer countries. He concludes with a clarion call for the abandonment of the War on Drugs, disbanding the Drug Enforcement Administration, and encouraging Congress to repeal the Controlled Substances Act. As a clinical and research oncologist responsible for the chronic pain management of thousands of cancer patients over the course of his 30-year career, Dr. Faguet knows that the most effective and safest way to manage most cases of chronic pain is with opioids. All modern pain-management textbooks advocate "titration to effect" in cases where opioids help: that is, gradually increasing the dosage until either the pain is acceptably controlled or the side effects begin to outweigh the pain-relief benefits. Yet the vast majority of doctors don't practice what the medical textbooks teach and instead prescribe opioids very reluctantly and conservatively. As a result, only half of all chronic pain sufferers-and fewer than half of all cancer patients-get adequate pain relief from their doctors. Why do physicians radically undertreat pain that is susceptible to opioid analgesics? They fear that if they prescribe Schedule II opioids in accordance with the professional standards of pain management set by such medical bodies as the American Pain Society, they will be investigated by the DEA, stigmatized, prosecuted as criminals, stripped of their licenses, and sent to jail. Visit Guy B. Faguet, MD's website here: www.faguet.net. Chronologies showing the events that led to Prohibition and its repeal, of drug use through the ages, and of the political history of drug policy in the United States and worldwide Six line graphs and eight tables conveying important information about pain relief as well as the War on Drugs Includes a thorough bibliography of works cited in the book

"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise happy endings. Chronic pain is like that. From the rare intersection in this text between patient narrative and physician response, however, readers may construct a dialogue on pain in our time that cannot fail to bring plentiful opportunities for personal insight and professional enlightenment." from the Foreword by David B. Morris

Chronic pain, which affects 70 million people in the United States alone more than diabetes, cancer, and heart disease combined is a major public health issue that remains poorly understood both within the health care system and by those closest to the people it afflicts. This book examines the experience of pain in ways that could significantly improve how patients and practitioners deal with pain. It is the first volume of a new collection of titles within the acclaimed Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series called How Patients Think, intended to give voice to the concerns of patients about their own medical care and the formulation of health policy.

Since surviving a near-fatal car accident, Lous Heshusius has suffered from chronic pain for more than a decade, forcing her to give up her career as a professor of education. Inside Chronic Pain, based in part on the pain journal Heshusius keeps, is a stunning memoir of a life lived in constant pain as well as an insightful and often critical account of the inadequacies of the health care system from physicians to hospitals and health insurance companies to understand chronic pain and treat those who suffer from it. Through her own frequently frustrating experiences, she shows how health care providers often ignore, deny, or incorrectly treat chronic pain at immense cost to both the patient and the health care system. She also offers cogent suggestions on improving the quality and outcome of chronic pain care and management, using her encounters with exceptional medical professionals as models.

Inside Chronic Pain deals with pain's dramatic and destructive effects on one's sense of self and identity. It chronicles the chaos that takes place, the paralyzing effect of severe pain, the changes in personality that ensue, and the corrosive effects of severe pain on the ability to attend to day-to-day tasks. It describes how one's social life falls apart and isolation takes over. It also relates moments of happiness and beauty and describes how rooting the self in the present is crucial in managing pain.

A unique feature of Inside Chronic Pain is the clinical commentary by Dr. Scott M. Fishman, president of the American Pain Foundation. Fishman has long tried to improve the lives of patients like Heshusius. His medical perspective on her very human narrative will help physicians and other clinicians better understand and treat patients with chronic pain."

This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need. Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change focuses on America's national crisis in pain management caused by the widening divergence between the enormous contributions of opioids ("narcotics") to pain management in the clinical setting and the mistaken belief that they are dangerous, highly addictive drugs. After dissecting the strategy and tactics of the War on Drugs from medical, historical, legal, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives, Guy Faguet MD indicts the 40-year-long War on Drugs for having failed to stem the supply of illicit drugs in America despite expenditures of half a trillion dollars, despite violating the basic human right to pain relief of tens of millions of American chronic pain sufferers, and despite fomenting organized crime, government corruption, racial injustice, and social disruption in both the United States and the producer countries. He concludes with a clarion call for the abandonment of the War on Drugs, disbanding the Drug Enforcement Administration, and encouraging Congress to repeal the Controlled Substances Act. As a clinical and research oncologist responsible for the chronic pain management of thousands of cancer patients over the course of his 30-year career, Dr. Faguet knows that the most effective and safest way to manage most cases of chronic pain is with opioids. All modern pain-management textbooks advocate "titration to effect" in cases where opioids help: that is, gradually increasing the dosage until either the pain is acceptably controlled or the side effects begin to outweigh the pain-relief benefits. Yet the vast majority of doctors don't practice what the medical textbooks teach and instead prescribe opioids very reluctantly and conservatively. As a result, only half of all chronic pain sufferers-and fewer than half of all cancer patients-get adequate pain relief from their doctors. Why do physicians radically undertreat pain that is susceptible to opioid analgesics? They fear that if they prescribe Schedule II opioids in accordance with the professional standards of pain management set by such medical bodies as the American Pain Society, they will be investigated by the DEA, stigmatized, prosecuted as criminals, stripped of their licenses, and sent to jail. Visit Guy B. Faguet, MD's website here: www.faguet.net.

Here is the second, completely revised and updated edition of the successful practical guide to image-guided spine intervention. It contains revised text and images as well as new sections and chapters. The updated text thoroughly discusses both well-established and new interventions that are applied to the spine for the purpose of pain relief.

... und jetzt ein kunstliches Huftgelenk? Mit dieser Frage mussen sich allein in Deutschland Jahr fur Jahr uber 150 000 Huft-Patienten auseinander setzen. Obgleich die Wahrscheinlichkeit hoch ist, dass sich mit einem -neuen- kunstlichen Huftgelenk die Lebensqualitat deutlich verbessern wurde, zogern viele Betroffene aus Angst und Unwissenheit die Entscheidung fur die Operation unnotig hinaus.

Der Ratgeber enthalt wichtige Informationen zu kunstlichen Huftgelenken und dazu, auf welche Weise sie im Korper funktionieren. Sie erfahren Details zu Krankengeschichten und Prothesentypen, zur Anatomie des Huftgelenks und zur Entstehung, Auspragung und Behandlung von Arthrose sowie zu Methoden der Physiotherapie. Zahlreiche Berichte von Patienten werden mit facharztlichen Erlauterungen verknupft. Checklisten, Ubersichten und Hervorhebungen ermoglichen eine schnelle Orientierung. Ubungsanleitungen fur das tagliche Bewegungstraining der operierten Hufte geben Hinweise fur Ihren Weg aus dem Schmerz."

Immer mehr Patienten vertrauen in der Schmerztherapie neben der Schulmedizin auch auf komplementare Methoden. Beide Richtungen konnen zum Wohl des Patienten in vielen Therapieverfahren eingesetzt werden.

Dieses von Experten aus Pflege und Medizin geschriebene Buch bietet einen guten Uberblick zu den haufigsten Methoden. Neben den Grundlagen uber Schmerzentstehung, -messung, und -therapie werden auch die Kommunikation in der Pflege und die rechtlichen Aspekte vorgestellt.

Aromapflege, Ayurveda, Entspannungsverfahren, Ergotherapie, Feldenkrais, Massage, Physiotherapie, Psychotherapie oder Wickel werden ausfuhrlich anhand von zahlreichen praktischen Beispielen beschrieben. Ziel der Anwendung ist stets die Reduktion der Nebenwirkungen von Therapien. Die vorgestellten Methoden eignen sich aber auch zur Vorbeugung und konnen bei stagnierenden Heilungsprozessen erfolgreich eingesetzt werden. Das Buch richtet sind alle in der Pflege tatigen Personen sowie Betroffene und deren Angehorige. "