Full Description
Neuropathic pain is one of the most common, debilitating, costly, and difficult to treat categories of chronic pain conditions characterized by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system. Neuropathic Pain, part of the What Do I Do Now? Pain Medicine series, brings together in one volume 45 cases which expertly explore the diagnoses, assessment, management, and treatment of various types of neuropathic pain including less common and complex cases.
Treatment of neuropathic pain requires skillful assessment and management. Neuropathic Pain provides an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter challenging situations. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"
Contents
SECTION I: CLINICAL CASES, DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT
1. Is this neuropathic pain?
2. How do I implement therapeutic management?
3. Back and leg pain
4. Paresthesia of the hand
5. Itch and herpes zoster
6. Painful legs and diabetes, case 1
7. Painful legs and diabetes, case 2
8. Groin pain after hernia repair
9. Pain after surgery for hand fracture
10. Pain and amputation
11. Pain and breast cancer surgery
12. Cold evoked symptoms after chemotherapy
13. Cervicobrachial pain and cancer
14. My body is boiling
15. Pain and Covid 19
16. Pelvic pain
17. Burning mouth
18. Orofacial pain
19. A lightning in the face
20. Brachial plexus avulsion
21. Pain and paraplegia l
22. Pain and multiple sclerosis
23. Sudden onset facial pain
24. Pain and Parkinson
25. Burning hands
26. Neuropathic pain in a child
SECTION II: THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS IN PRIMARY CARE
27. Antidepressants and antiepileptics
28. Topical therapy
29. The case of opioids
30. Physical therapy
31. Psychotherapies
32. Complementary medicine
33. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
SECTION III: SPECIALIZED ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY
34. Management of high risk patients
35. Management of patients with comorbididies
36. Management of neuropathic pain: role of patient reported outcome measures
37. Management of neuropathic pain: role of quantitative sensory testing
38. Complementary investigations
39. The case of cannabinoids
40. Nerve blocks and drug infusions
41. Noninvasive brain stimulation
42. When do I refer for invasive therapies?
43. Peripheral nerve stimulation and radiofrequency
44. Spinal cord stimulation
45. Invasive brain stimulation and intrathecal therapy
