
Neuropathic PainA Case-Based Approach to Practical Management
Jianguo Cheng
Print publication date: Dec 2018
ISBN: 9780190298357
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract
Neuropathic pain is a category of chronic pain disorders that are most common, debilitating, costly, and difficult to treat. It is a significant challenge to individuals suffering from it, healthcare providers, and society at large. This book is written by expert clinicians and investigators from multiple disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and updated information on neuropathic pain disorders that are commonly encountered in clinical practice. It strives to reflect the current understanding of the concepts, classification, mechanisms, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of neuropathic pain. Following chapters addressing these topics in general terms are chapters devoted to specific neuropathic pain disorders consequent to lesions or diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. These chapters take a case-based format to stimulate situation-guided thinking, predicting, and learning. The textbook serves to inform best practices and stimulate innovative investigations to advance patient care, as well as the science behind it.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Part I Overview of Neuropathic Pain
- 1 Concept and Overview of Neuropathic Pain
- 2 Classification of Neuropathic Pain
- 3 Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain
- 4 Assessment and Diagnosis of Neuropathic Pain
- 5 Nonpharmacological Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- 6 Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- 7 Interventional Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- 8 Surgical Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- 9 Postsurgical Neuralgia
- 10 Post-Traumatic Neuralgia
- Part II Focal or Multifocal Lesions of the Peripheral Nervous System
- Part III Generalized Lesions of the Peripheral Nervous System
- Part IV Lesions of the Central Nervous System
- Part V Spinal Nerve Root Disease: Radicular Pain
- Part VI Neuropathic Pain of the Head and Neck
- Part VII Special Forms of Neuropathic Pain
- End Matter