Managing Chronic Pain in an Age of Addiction (eBook)

Akhtar Purvez (Autor)

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2018
170 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0924-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Chronic pain is challenging to treat in the face of an ongoing opioid crisis. Akhtar Purvez’s authoritative account of pain management explores the complex and competing factors involved. He discusses approaches including advanced interventional procedures, non-opioid medications, physical therapy, and behavioral and psychologic support.

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As a nation, we are facing an unprecedented opioid crisis that is killing more than 65,000 people a year. It is destroying our families and decimating our neighborhoods. And it is costing us billions. As more and more people are dealing with chronic pain, and as the opioid crisis reaches epic proportions, alternative approaches to understanding pain and its management are necessary. Here, Dr. Akhtar Purvez, a seasoned researcher, pain specialist, and pain advocate, offers basic information about pain and pain conditions and considers how we approach pain from cultural, biological, and medical perspectives. He discusses the latest minimally invasive, interventional approaches like nerve blocks and ablation procedures, and neuromodulation techniques like peripheral nerve, spinal cord, and brain stimulation. The uses of marijuana and associated interventions is reviewed, and Purvez walks readers through the process of assessing pain, finding a doctor who can treat it, and methods for coping with pain through non-medical approaches like meditation. Anyone coping with pain or helping someone who is will find here a ready resource that offers hope and understanding.

Autor

Akhtar Purvez, MD, is a researcher, interventional pain physician, author and pain advocate. He is certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Anesthesiology in Pain Medicine, and the American Board of Disability Analysts. He has been in pain practice since 2002. He is a member of Spine Intervention Society (SIS), American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain medicine (ASRA), and American Medical Association. Purvez has been involved in training physician assistants, medical students, residents, fellows and other physicians. He was Adjunct Clinical Professor at Lincoln Memorial University, TN and writes, lectures, and speaks on radio and TV about pain related issues. He supports pain advocacy, pain policy, training and research.

Inhalt

Introduction:A Long Way from KashmirChapter One:Medications that Heal--and KillChapter Two:The Opiod Epidemic that is Killing UsChapter Three:On Addiction ManagementChapter Four:A Mystery and a PrizeChapter Five:Complex Nature of Chronic PainChapter Six:Culture of PainChapter Seven:The Stigma of PainChapter Eight:Chronic Pain and DepressionChapter Nine:Obesity and Chronic PainChapter Ten:Finding the Right SpecialistChapter Eleven:Searching for the Cause of PainChapter Twelve:Fibromyalgia Gets RealChapter Thirteen:Other Pain ConditionsChapter Fourteen:Getting Moving--Exercise and Physical TherapyChapter Fifteen:Interventional Pain ManagementChapter SixteenAlternative Management OptionsChapter Seventeen:Marijuana--The Mystery DrugChapter Eighteen:Pain in the CourtroomChapter Nineteen:Co-existing with PainChapter Twenty:Toward a Painless Future

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Vorwort: John Rowlingson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
• Schlagworte: Back pain • chronic headaches • chronic pain • degenerative disc disease • Fibromyalgia • Interventional Pain Management • opioid crisis • opioid medications • Osteoarthritis • pain killers • painkillers • pain management • Pain Medication • Pain Treatment • post herpetic neuralgia • treating pain
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0924-7 / 1538109247
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0924-3 / 9781538109243