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1 online resource (238 pages) |
Contents |
Evidence-Based Interventional Pain Medicine: According to Clinical Diagnoses; Contents; Contributor List; Foreword by Menno E. Sluijter; Foreword by P. Prithvi Raj; Introduction; 1: Trigeminal Neuralgia; 2: Cluster Headache; 3: Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain; 4: Cervical Radicular Pain; 5: Cervical Facet Pain; 6: Cervicogenic Headache; 7: Whiplash-Associated Disorders; 8: Occipital Neuralgia; 9: Painful Shoulder Complaints; 10: Thoracic Pain; 11: Lumbosacral Radicular Pain; 12: Pain Originating from the Lumbar Facet Joints; 13: Sacroiliac Joint Pain; 14: Coccygodynia |
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15: Discogenic Low Back Pain16: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome; 17: Herpes Zoster and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia; 18: Painful Diabetic Polyneuropathy; 19: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; 20: Meralgia Paresthetica; 21: Phantom Pain; 22: Traumatic Plexus Lesion; 23: Pain in Patients with Cancer; 24: Chronic Refractory Angina Pectoris; 25: Ischemic Pain in the Extremities and Raynaud's Phenomenon; 26: Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis; Index |
Summary |
Unrelieved chronic pain is a worldwide epidemicChronic pain has been subject to multiple international initiatives through the World Health Organization. Interventional Pain Medicine, use of minimally invasive techniques to relieve pain, is the best approach when simpler measures such as physical therapy or medications fail. However, these procedures can be associated with significant risk and expense. Establishing uniformity in diagnostic criteria and procedural performance can reduce both morbidity and unnecessary procedures, and hence healthcare expenditures. While other texts explain how |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Cancer -- Nursing.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Patijn, Jacob
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Hartrick, Craig
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Lataster, Arno
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Huygen, Frank
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Mekhail, Nagy
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Van Kleef, Maarten
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Ebook Library.
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ISBN |
9781119968344 |
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