Psychosocial Aspects of Pain: A Handbook for Health Care ProvidersRobert H. Dworkin, William Breitbart Psychosocial Aspects of Pain: A Handbook for Health Care Providers is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource for clinicians who wish to learn about the psychological, psychiatric, and social aspects of pain. Other books on these topics have targeted mental health specialists. This volume, however, has been prepared for a different audience-pain specialists and others in the health care professions, including physicians, nurses, and physical therapists, who would like to learn more about psychosocial issues in the evaluation and treatment of patients with painful conditions. Interest in these aspects of pain and in the particular challenges that often arise in treating pain patients is widespread in health care. This handbook fills an important need by providing, in one convenient volume, a collection of focused reviews of all the information that health care providers need to know about psychosocial aspects of pain. |
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... intensity along a line and is assigned a numeric value as a function of its rank order . An advantage of this approach compared to numerical scales is that the linguistic descriptors of pain might more accurately represent the ...
... intensity along a line and is assigned a numeric value as a function of its rank order . An advantage of this approach compared to numerical scales is that the linguistic descriptors of pain might more accurately represent the ...
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... INTENSITY MEASURES Because one of the obvious primary goals of treatment for chronic pain is to decrease the intensity of the pain , it is important to monitor pain intensity both for a period before and throughout the course of ...
... INTENSITY MEASURES Because one of the obvious primary goals of treatment for chronic pain is to decrease the intensity of the pain , it is important to monitor pain intensity both for a period before and throughout the course of ...
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... intensity or pain relief . The mean visual analogue scale measure of pain intensity for the group overall was 49 mm ( range 5-100 mm ) , thus falling predominantly in the moderate range . As with cancer pain patients , suicidal ideation ...
... intensity or pain relief . The mean visual analogue scale measure of pain intensity for the group overall was 49 mm ( range 5-100 mm ) , thus falling predominantly in the moderate range . As with cancer pain patients , suicidal ideation ...
Contents
Richard Chapman PhD Pain Research Center Department of Anesthesiology | 3 |
The Influence of Family and Culture on Pain | 29 |
Biopsychosocial Models of Pain | 47 |
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