Contemporary Issues in Chronic Pain Management

1. Historical Perspectives on Pain Management.- 2. Pain, Ethnicity, and Culture.- 3. Recent Physiological Studies of Pain.- 4. Analgesiology: A New Approach to Pain.- 5. Endorphins and Narcotic Drugs: Pain Control Paradigms vs. Legal Realities.- 6. Pharmacology of Substance P and Related Tachykinins.- 7. Somatostatin and Chronic Pain Management.- 8. Perspectives of Capsaicin-Type Agents in Pain Therapy and Research.- 9. Pain Measurement.- 10. Selective Tissue Conductance in the Assessment of Sympathetically Mediated Pain.- 11. Visceral and Referred Pain.- 12. Nerve Block Therapy in Chronic Pain Management.- 13. Management of Headache.- 14. The Role of Substance P and Related Neuropeptides in Chronic Pain Mechanisms.- 15. Current Therapy of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.- 16. Differential Diagnosis of Painful Conditions and Thermography.- 17. Psychological Assessment and Treatment of Cancer Pain.- 18. Low-Level Laser Biomodulation for Chronic Pain Management.- 19. Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain Management.... Mehr