This book focuses on both the management of the pain as well as the pain patient and is formatted as a practical, evidence-based guide to managing chronic pain conditions. It meets the market need for a reference that aides physicians in understanding and improving chronic pain in their patients. Organized across 46 chapters, the book begins with an introduction on chronic pain evaluation, and specifically stresses the importance of complete patient evaluation including social and psychological evaluation. Subsequent chapters then start with an evaluation, medical and interventional options available, how and when to move from one option to another and the level of evidence offered for each intervention. These unique chapter elements provide the reader with a case-based approach to managing their patients. Additionally, a brief discussion of epidemiology and pathophysiology of the disease process is included and the technical aspects of interventional techniques are reviewed. Edited by a leader in the field with international contributing authors across pain medicine, Practical Chronic Pain Management this book is written primarily for anesthesiologists, pain specialists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians.

1.ABCs of Evaluation of Patient in Chronic Pain

2. A 40-Year-Old Woman with Chronic Recurrent Headache (Migraine)
3. Cluster Headache
4. Atypical Facial Pain/Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain
5. A 75-Year-Old Woman with Frequent Fleeting Face Pain (Trigeminal Neuralgia)
6. A Patient with Chronic Pain in the Back of the Head
7. A 35-Year-Old Man with Neck Pain Since a Car Accident (Whiplash Injury).-8. A 45-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain of Insidious Onset.-9. Cervical Spondylosis.-10. A 65-Year-Old Man with Chronic Neck Pain (Cervical Facet Disease).-11. Cervical Radicular Pain
12. Temporomandibular Joint
13. A 45-Year-Old Patient with Persistent Shoulder Pain (Rotator Cuff Injury)
14. A 75-Year-Old Man with Chronic Shoulder Pain (Shoulder Arthritis)
15. A 35-Year-Old Man with Persistent Pain After Hand Injury (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)
16. A 75-Year-Old Woman with Hand Grip Weakness
17. A 55-Year-Old Woman with Little Finger Numbness and Pain for6 Months
18. A 68-Year-Old Man with Chronic Wrist Pain
19. A 45-Year-Old Patient with Chronic Chest Wall Pain
20. A 45-Year-Old Woman with Persistent Pain After Mastectomy
21. Chronic pain and postherpetic neuralgia
22. Functional Abdominal Pain (Chronic Abdominal Pain)
23. A 35-Year-Old Man with Chronic Abdominal Pain (Chronic Pancreatitis)
24. Pain in the Pelvis
25. Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome
26. Chronic Pain After Hernia Repair
27. A 65-Year-Old Woman with Chronic Hip Pain
28. A 75-Year-Old man with Chronic Knee Pain
29. A 55-Year-Old Man with Pain After Above Knee Amputation
30. A 45-Year-Old Patient Runner with Chronic Sole Pain
31. A 33-Year-Old Patient with Persistent Back Pain
32. A 55-Year-Old Woman with Leg and Feet Pain
33. A 65-Year-Old Man with Leg Pain While Walking
34. Lower Back Pain in an Elderly Patient
35. A 55-Year-Old Woman with Chronic Gluteal Pain
36. A 75-Year-Old Woman with Mid-thoracic Pain (Compression Fracture)
37. Piriformis Syndrome
38. A 25-Year-Old Cyclist with Persistent Perineal Pain
39. A 55-Year-Old Patient with Recurrent Pain After Back Surgery
40. A 55-Year-Old Diabetic Woman with Feet Pain
41. A 35-Year-Old Woman with Whole Body Pain--Fibromyalgia
42. A Puzzling Case of Increasing Pain After Chronic Opioid Therapy
43. A 65-Year-Old Man with Poor Cancer Pain Control Despite Intrathecal Pump.-44. A 38-Year-Old Woman with Baclofen Withdrawal
45. Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
46. A 35-Year-Old Opioid-Tolerant Patient with Uncontrolled Pain after Surgery.