Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management

Rating:
Summary: Excellent reference for chronic pain management.
Review: Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management by Michael S. Margoles Md, PhD and Richard Weiner PhD.

Someday they will look back on this era as the Dark Ages in chronic pain management. This book sheds some much-needed light into that darkness. In this field, there has been a pressing need for a book that is both comprehensive in scope and readily understandable. Michael S. Margoles MD, PhD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and pain management specialist. Richard S. Weiner, PhD is executive director of the American Academy of Pain Management. Together, they edit this book, which fills that need. It contains the material that a medical care practitioner needs to assess, diagnose and manage chronic pain patients, the material is presented in such as way that it is accessible and of value to the patients as well.

This book includes chapters written by counselors, chiropractors, osteopathic doctors and those special chronic pain experts-the patients themselves. The dilemma of the modern day chronic pain physicians, primary care givers and pharmacists is presented. On one hand there is the need to treat the patient in the best way possible to maximize function and minimize pain, and on the other hand there is the very real fear of the DEA--government agents trained to deal with drug abusers and illegal narcotics, with very little understanding of chronic pain. The result is that patients turn to the "Kevorkian option", due to their doctors' fears and lack of training. This book gives realistic, well-documented guidelines for the use of opioids in the care of chronic pain care. True patient stories give an intensity and humanity to this struggle that goes on every day and night, and will continue to do so until this problem is resolved. This book gives suggestions for the resolution of this problem. One of these is medical coding for myofascial pain syndrome, the most common source of chronic pain, which has been mostly ignored by the medical and insurance professionals simply because it is a complex condition.

As a chronic pain patient as well as care giver, I hope that this book finds its way into every library. I pray that doctors and other care givers, chronic pain patients, medical board members, insurers and drug enforcement agents read it, and become enlightened.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent reference for chronic pain management.
Review: Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management by Michael S. Margoles Md, PhD and Richard Weiner PhD.

Someday they will look back on this era as the Dark Ages in chronic pain management. This book sheds some much-needed light into that darkness. In this field, there has been a pressing need for a book that is both comprehensive in scope and readily understandable. Michael S. Margoles MD, PhD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and pain management specialist. Richard S. Weiner, PhD is executive director of the American Academy of Pain Management. Together, they edit this book, which fills that need. It contains the material that a medical care practitioner needs to assess, diagnose and manage chronic pain patients, the material is presented in such as way that it is accessible and of value to the patients as well.

This book includes chapters written by counselors, chiropractors, osteopathic doctors and those special chronic pain experts-the patients themselves. The dilemma of the modern day chronic pain physicians, primary care givers and pharmacists is presented. On one hand there is the need to treat the patient in the best way possible to maximize function and minimize pain, and on the other hand there is the very real fear of the DEA--government agents trained to deal with drug abusers and illegal narcotics, with very little understanding of chronic pain. The result is that patients turn to the "Kevorkian option", due to their doctors' fears and lack of training. This book gives realistic, well-documented guidelines for the use of opioids in the care of chronic pain care. True patient stories give an intensity and humanity to this struggle that goes on every day and night, and will continue to do so until this problem is resolved. This book gives suggestions for the resolution of this problem. One of these is medical coding for myofascial pain syndrome, the most common source of chronic pain, which has been mostly ignored by the medical and insurance professionals simply because it is a complex condition.

As a chronic pain patient as well as care giver, I hope that this book finds its way into every library. I pray that doctors and other care givers, chronic pain patients, medical board members, insurers and drug enforcement agents read it, and become enlightened.