Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care

Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course
2013
ISBN: 978-1-4419-1650-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 865 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1847 g

Pain has long been regarded as an unpleasant sensory consequence of neuronal activity in specific nociceptive pathways that is triggered by noxious stimuli, inflammation, or damage to the nervous system structure or function. However, classic models of disease and pain mechanisms do not adequately explain the commonly observed discrepancies between the extent of pathology levels of reported pain, the impact of experience of illness, disability, or in certain instances death, on the lived experience of pain. In other words, pain is not only a sensory event but a biobehavioral event as well. As such, it is subjective and therefore a significant cause of psychological suffering and even existential questioning. Thus treatment for many chronic pain syndromes, early in life, over the life course, and certainly at the end of life, remains an inexact science. The broad aim of this edited volume is to take a multidisciplinary, biobehavioral, and life course approach to understanding chronic pain. By way of introduction, the contributing authors review biopsychosocial approaches to understanding chronic pain and disability. Subsequent chapters describe issues related to communication and pain, pain and palliative care assessment, biobehavioral approaches to understanding common pain conditions, including pain in pediatric patients, pain in the older person, pain after traumatic brain injury (TBI), pain in the battlefield injured, pain in whiplash associated disorder (WAD), chronic low back pain, and adult cancer-related pain. Furthermore the volume addresses biobehavioral mechanisms associated with chronic pain, including stress and chronic pain, the biobehavior of hope, temporomandibular disorder and its relationship to fibromyalgia, and pain imaging, and reviews interventions for chronic pain including evidence-based pharmacotherapy’s for chronic pain, chronic pain and opioids, nerve block, trigger points and intrathecal therapies for chronic pain, neurosurgical interventions, and rehabilitation treatments for chronic musculoskeletal pain.  Finally, the text discusses broader issues in chronic pain management, including psychosocial issues associated with chronic pain, spiritual dimensions of chronic pain and suffering, contributions from the humanities and social sciences in terms of understanding the chronic pain experience, and highlights ethical issues in pain and palliative care.
The collaborators for this project are from diverse cultural and biomedical settings, including the United Kingdom, United States, Italy, England, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and Norway. The expertise in this volume span the fields of clinical medicine, neuroscience, neurosurgery, literature, anthropology, art, neuroanatomy, pediatrics, gerontology, pain imaging, health disparities, transportation, rehabilitation, palliative medicine, philanthropy, the medical humanities, oncology, physiology, anesthesiology, pharmacology, genetics, stress management, psychology, dentistry, complementary and alternative medicine, spiritual care, nursing, pain policy, and clinical ethics. Whilst highly multidisciplinary, authors explore the evidence base for chronic pain and palliative care in their individual professional areas and each has provided valuable insights with the hope that it will result in improved pain control and palliative care.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Rhonda J.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Rehabilitation
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete AINS Schmerzmedizin & Schmerztherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Chronic Pain and Disability.- Part I: Communication and Pain.- Pain and Intercultural Communication.- Truth telling and Palliative Care.- Communication and Palliative Care: E-health Interventions and Pain Management.- Educating Patients and Caregivers about Pain Management: What clinicians need to know.- Part II: Assessment.- Pain Assessment Tools in Palliative Care and Cancer.- Quality Indicators for Pain in Palliative Care.- Palliative Care Clinical Trials: Generalizability and Applicability in Hospice and Palliative Care Practice.- Dynamic Pain Assessment: An Application of Clinical Infometrics to Personalized Pain Treatment and Management.- Assessing Pain and Unmet Needs in Patients with Advanced Dementia: The Role of the Serial Trial Intervention (STI).- Part III: Common Pain Conditions.- Pediatric Chronic Pain.- Pain in the Older Person.- Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury.- Pain in the Battlefield Injured.- Pain, Whiplash Disorder and Traffic Safety.- Chronic Low Back Pain.- Adult Cancer-Related Pain.- Part IV. Mechanisms.- Neuroanatomy of Pain and Pain Pathways.- Acute to Chronic Pain: Transitions in the Post Surgical Patient.- Pain and the Placebo/Nocebo Effect.- Sex Differences in Pain across the Life Course.- Stress and Pain.- Hope in the context of pain and palliative care.- Temporomandibular Disorders and Fibromyalgia.- Phantom Limb Pain.- Pharmacogenetics of Pain: the Future of Personalized Medicine.- Pain Imaging.- Part V. Interventions.- Evidence-based Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain.- Chronic Pain and Opioids.- Nerve Blocks, Trigger Points, and Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Pain.- Neurosurgical Interventions for the Control of Chronic Pain Conditions.- Rehabilitation Treatments for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.- Part VI: Psychosocial, Complementary and Alternative (CAM) and Spiritual Approaches for the Control of Symptoms.- Pain, Depression and Anxiety in Cancer.- Support groups for Chronic Pain.- CAM in Chronic Pain and Palliative Care.- Spiritual Dimensions of Pain and Suffering.- Part VII: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences.- Suffering, Hope, and Healing.- Narrative and Pain: Towards an Integrative Model.- Representations of the Body in Pain: Anthropological Approaches.- The Art of Pain: the Patient’s Perspective of Chronic Pain.- Part VIII: Ethical Issues and Future Directions.- Disparities in Pain Management and Palliative Care.- The Delineation and Explication of Palliative Options of Last Resort.- Recognition and Resolution of Ethical Barriers to Palliative Care Research.- How Health Care Reform can Improve Access to Quality Pain and Palliative Care Services.

Über Autor(innen)

Rhonda Moore, PhD received her doctoral degree in cultural and medical anthropology from Stanford University and completed her post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral science from Stanford Medical School and in epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Moore has edited two other books for Springer: Cancer, Culture and Communication (2004) with David Spiegel, MD (Stanford School of Medicine) and Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain(2009).