Symptom Oriented Pain Management

A comprehensive guide to help practitioners diagnose the cause of pain based on symptoms presented, and facilitate its management with appropriate treatment. Beginning with an introduction to clinical examination and radiology, the following sections each examine pain in a different part of the body and possible causes and treatment. The final sections discuss alternative pain management with physiotherapy, psychotherapy and allied therapy. This book Symptom Oriented Pain Management sincerely attempted to help pain physicians to treat patients in simplistic manner and tips to reach a correct diagnosis and aspire to achieve ђ́جTotal Pain Reliefђ́ح for their patients. In this comprehensive and practical book discussed various types of pain and how to tackle them. Chronic pain as a symptom (now also a disease) has a variety of facets which at times makes it difficult to manage. Pain physicians often face dilemma of how to reach correct diagnosis of a particular symptom such as backache, headache, neck pain, neuropathic pain, ischemic pain and cancer pain. It is mandatory for pain physician to learn techniques to accurately diagnose the etiology and mechanisms of pain which facilitates appropriate management with pharmacotherapy and where necessary the correct interventional procedure. This comprehensive book to help pain physicians reach a diagnosis to facilitate management with maximum pain relief and also useful for radiology, physicians, surgeons and postgraduate students Comprehensive guid eto diagnosis and management of pain based symptoms, covering different causes of pain in all parts of the body.