Chronic pain : a resource for effective manual therapy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Austin, Philip (Osteopath), author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Handspring Publishing Limited, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Chronic pain -- Treatment. Chronic pain -- Physical therapy. Chronic Pain Pain Management Chronic pain -- Treatment.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456462

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ISBN:	9781909141520 1909141526 9781909141513 1909141518
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The effective management of pain is a problem which confronts all manual therapists. This book provides a clear picture of our current understanding of pain mechanisms and shows how that knowledge should inform approaches to treatment. The knowledge of pain science that the book conveys will help the therapist select the best approach to the clinical management of each patient.
Other form:	Print version: Austin, Philip (Osteopath). Chronic pain. Edinburgh : Handspring Publishing Limited, 2017 9781909141513

Table of Contents:

Basic Pain Mechanisms. Peripheral nociceptive mechanisms ; Spinal nociceptive mechanisms ; Supraspinal Pain Mechanisms
Epidemiology, Psychology, Evaluation and Treatment ; Epidemiology of chronic pain ; Psychological features of chronic pain ; Evaluation of chronic pain ; Efficacy of manual therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain
Clinical Presentations of Chronic Pain. Chronic musculoskeletal pain ; Neuropathic pain ; Chronic Visceral Pain ; Primary headaches and orofacial pain ; Pain in the elderly.

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