Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management Review

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(More customer reviews)Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management by Michael S. Margoles Md, PhD and Richard Weiner PhD.
Someday they will look back on this era as the Dark Ages in chronic pain management.This book sheds somemuch-needed light into that darkness.In this field, there has been apressing need for a book that is both comprehensive in scope and readilyunderstandable.Michael S. Margoles MD, PhD is a board certifiedorthopedic surgeon and pain management specialist. Richard S. Weiner, PhDis executive director of the American Academy of Pain Management. Together, they edit this book, which fills that need.It contains thematerial that a medical care practitioner needs to assess, diagnose andmanage chronic pain patients, the material is presented in such as way thatit is accessible and of value to the patients as well.
This book includeschapters written by counselors, chiropractors, osteopathic doctors andthose special chronic pain experts-the patients themselves. The dilemmaof the modern day chronic pain physicians, primary care givers andpharmacists is presented.On one hand there is the need to treat thepatient in the best way possible to maximize function and minimize pain,and on the other hand there is the very real fear of the DEA--governmentagents trained to deal with drug abusers and illegal narcotics, with verylittle understanding of chronic pain.The result is that patients turn tothe "Kevorkian option", due to their doctors' fears and lack oftraining.This book gives realistic, well-documentedguidelines for theuse of opioids in the care ofchronic pain care.True patient storiesgive an intensity and humanity to this struggle that goes on every day andnight, and will continue to do so until this problem is resolved.Thisbook gives suggestions for the resolution of this problem. One of theseismedical coding for myofascial pain syndrome, the most common source ofchronic pain, which has been mostly ignored by the medical and insuranceprofessionals simply because it is a complex condition.
As a chronicpain patient as well as care giver, I hope that this book finds its wayinto every library.I pray that doctors and other care givers, chronicpain patients, medical board members, insurers and drug enforcement agentsread it, and become enlightened.

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Chronic pain affects every aspect of life-physical well-being, mood, stamina, and feelings of self worth and self respect. This book focuses on conquering pain and its related problems through proper management. It offers numerous tools and concepts with which to attack chronic pain and win the battle that more than 35 million people in the U.S. alone fight every day. Virtually all specialists in the health care field must be concerned with pain management-this complete reference offers them strategies for helping their patients, and for patients to help themselves.Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management presents a variety of therapies for combating chronic pain, including:oApplying external therapyoChanging the way patients perceive painthrough psychotherapy or other cognitive meansoPhysical therapy and exercisesoOver-the-counter or prescription medicines to relieve pain, stress, and insomnia caused by discomfortoSurgical optionsThe book also contains never before published information on how to prescribe and administer opioids and opioid-containing analgesics for chronic, intractable, and non-malignant pain patients.There is hope for those suffering from chronic pain. This book outlines commonly overlooked problems that, if properly addressed, can make the difference between a patient recovering or effectively managing their pain-or not. Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management is full of practical advice and options for anyone suffering from chronic pain and for the doctors who treat them.