Pain: Perspectives on Acute and Chronic Pain

Joav Merrick

From Hippocratic medicine through modern theory, the concept and physiopathology of pain has been developed from religious and philosophical to a more scientific concept. Different cultures have developed different words to express pain and we are still far from a comprehensive understanding of pain. In clinical practice, a good understanding of history is important and multidisciplinary collaboration should be used to help the patient with both acute and chronic pain. In this book we have gathered evidence from international researchers and practitioners involved with both acute and chronic pain issues with the hope that this information will be of use to the reader.

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Preface; Introduction; Pain; The Underlying Framework of How an Acute Pain Score Is Determined: An Interpretive Description; Characterizing the Role of Haloperidol for Analgesia in the Emergency Department; Short and Long Term Efficacy of Ultrasound Guided Sacroiliac Joint Injections When Combined with Physical Examination and Point of Maximal Tenderness; Psychological Coping Strategies among Post-Surgery Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Patients: Predictive Values on Pain and Functioning Outcomes; Effectiveness and Safety of Epidural Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Management after Vascular Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort; When Physiotherapy Is Not Enough: A Concise Questionnaire to Predict the Need for Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Pain; Rebound Pain after Shoulder Surgery with Interscalene Brachial Plexus Blockade: How Often, How Bad?; Clinicians Knowledge in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Search and Critical Review of Existing Questionnaires; Spiritual and Existential Factors Predict Pain Relief in a Pain Management Program with a Meaning-Based Component; Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Patients with Chronic Temporomandibular Joint Disorders: A Case Series; Pain Management in Older Adults with Dementia: A Selective Review; Influence of Isometric Exercise on Pressure Pain Sensitivity in Knee Osteoarthritis; Person-Centred Management of Chronic Intractable Pain: An Observational Study Comparing Conventional Treatment with Hypnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Comorbidity; Beliefs Coping and Chronic Low-Back Pain: When Praying Did Not Prevent Pain and Disability!; A Study on the Prevalence of Shoulder Pain in People with Diabetes Mellitus; Under-Treatment of Depression in a Chronic Pain Management Clinic; Effects of Sustained Soft Tissue Compression Therapy on Pain and Swelling among Patients with Chikungunya in Dhaka City of Bangladesh; Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Sacroiliac Joint Arthropathy: A Prospective, Single Center, Randomized Controlled Trial; About the Editors; About the Center for Children with Chronic Diseases and Down Syndrome Center Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Mt Scopus Campus, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Index.