A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in variouschronic conditions* Contributes an important advance in the practice of painmanagement providing the information on which to build morecoherent and standardised strategies for relief of patientsuffering* Answers questions about which are the most effective methodsAND those which are not effective yet continue to be used* Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidenceand addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent* Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based painmanagement this is a seminal text in the field of pain

List of contributors, vPreface, ixList of abbreviations, xiPart 1 Understanding evidence and pain, 11 Why evidence matters, 3Andrew Moore and Sheena Derry2 Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments, 14Alec B. O'Connor and Robert H. Dworkin3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence, 31Eija Kalso4 Neurobiology of pain, 42Victoria Harvey and Anthony Dickenson5 Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient isan anecdote, 52David B. Morris6 Psychology of chronic pain and evidence-based psychologicalinterventions, 59Christopher EcclestonPart 2 Clinical pain syndromes: the evidence, 697 Chronic low back pain, 71Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes8 Chronic neck pain and whiplash, 83Allan Binder22 Headache, 279Peer Tfelt-Hansen23 Chest pain syndromes, 292Austin Leach and Michael ChesterPart 3 Cancer pain, 30924 Oncologic therapy in cancer pain, 311Rita Janes and Tiina Saarto25 Cancer pain: analgesics and co-analgesics, 327Rae Frances Bell26 Psychologic interventions for cancer pain, 337Francis J. Keefe, Tamara J. Somers and Amy Abernethy27 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture348Mark I. JohnsonPart 4 Treatment modalities: the evidence, 36728 Interventional therapies, 369Anthony Dragovich and Steven P. Cohen29 Spinal cord stimulation for refractory angina, 400Mats Börjesson, Clas Mannheimer, Paulin Andréll andBengt Linderoth30 Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain, 407James P. Robinson, Raphael Leo, Joseph Wallach, Ellen McGoughand Michael Schatman31 Drug treatment of chronic pain, 424Henry McQuay32 Complementary therapies for pain relief, 434Edzard ErnstIndex, 439