Practical Management of Pain

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Summary: A must for the pain specialist
Review: This book is in its third edition. The book is keeping up with the rapidly changing specialty of the Practice of Pain. The current edition has been expanded and extensively revised. The approach is "practical". A must for the practicing Pain Specialist and helpful for the pain patient to understand the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which are well illustrated.

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Summary: A good first text on Pain Management...
Review: This is a very good textbook on invasive pain management techniques, and their utility in clinical practice. The book reads well, is reasonably well illustrated, and includes tables of studies of techniques and their success rates. Additional discussion of the non-invasive medical and physiotherapeutic techniques of pain control for specific disorders are included. The book is multi-authored, with sections by Dr. P. Prithvi Raj, a noted expert in the field. This was the first textbook of Pain Management I purchased for my own clinical practice and it served me well. A new edition is due for 1999. I also would recommend the superb and scholarly Monograph, "Current Review of Pain" edited by the same author. This latter series summarizes the latest developments in the basic sciences and the clinical sciences in Pain Management, is very well illustrated, and the author has gone to the trouble of including an annotated bibliography of the voluminous medical and scientific literature on Pain, enabling the researcher and practitioner to select those articles from Medline most useful to his or her research and/or clinical endeavors.