Pain is a common symptom, yet it is frequently underevaluated
and undertreated. It is difficult to define, describe-and sometimes
to prove. It's pain, and suspicions of exaggerations often add
further insult to a patients' injuries. Biobehavioral Approaches to
Pain translates this highly subjective experience-and its physical,
psychological, social, and cultural dimensions-into practical
insights key to transforming the field of pain management.
This pathbreaking volume synthesizes a rich knowledge base from
across disciplines, including neurobiologic, genetic,
biobehavioral, clinical, narrative, substance abuse, health
services, ethical and policy perspectives, for a deeper
understanding of the impact of pain on individual lives and the
larger society. Its international panel of contributors highlights
special issues and review best practice guidelines, from placebo
effects to cancer, Whiplash Associated Disorders to pain imaging to
complementary medicine, phantom limb pain to gene therapies to
AIDS. Among the topics covered:
- The distinction between acute and chronic pain: is it
clinically useful?
- Improving clinical assessment of patients with pain.
- Age and sex differences in pain.
- The what, how and why of the placebo and nocebo effect
- Psychosocial and partner-assisted biopsychosocial interventions
for disease-related pain
- Substance abuse issues in pain treatment.
- The personal, social and economic costs of chronic pain.
Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain offers clinical and health
professionals, psychologists, as well as specialists in pain
management or palliative care, new directions in their ongoing
dialogue with patients. Given the prevalence of pain in the general
population, it should also interest researchers and students in the
field of public health.
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