Management of chronic pain

Management of chronic pain

Until 50 years ago chronic pain was not considered to be a medical condition that required special evaluation and treatment facilities. Pain was considered to be an indicator of tissue damage and appropriate medical or surgical treatment was prescribed for this. The many patients who had continuing pain because of the results of disease or trauma or because acute treatment was unable to relieve...

Management of chronic pain

Chronic pain: management principles

This book comprises a widespread and useful series of reviews on many aspects of malabsorption. The chapter authors are largely from the USA with a sprinkling of gastroenterologists from other parts of the world. The individual chapters are well-referenced. Many individual topics are discussed in detail, including intestinal immunity and malabsorption, and the relationship of alcohol, nutrition...

Chronic pain: management principles

Chronic pain management: advances

354 The Pharmaceutical Journal (Vol 279) 29 September 2007 Andrew Dickman, MSc, MRPharmS, is a senior clinical pharmacist at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute and The Cardiothoracic Centre, both in Liverpool The understanding of pain transmission and modulation has improved considerably since the revolutionary gate control theory of Melzack and Wall in 1965. However, current pharmacolog...