Guide to colour plates

Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword
Michael J Cousins

About the editors

About the authors

SECTION 1  THE PERSON

Chapter 1   Pain and the front line: a general practitioner’s perspective
Roberta T Chow

Chapter 2   Understanding the pathophysiology of pain
Philip J Sidall

Chapter 3   Myofascial pain            
Peter T Dorsher

Chapter 4   The management of acute pain
Ian Mowat, Elystan Hughes, and Stephan A Schug

Chapter 5   Postoperative pain
David A Scott and Pamela E Macintyre

Chapter 6   Transition from acute to chronic neuropathic: potential new players on the horizon
Joshua E Adler, Amy Hinkle, and Anne M Skoff

Chapter 7   fMRI and pain
Mark C Bicket and Paul J Christo

Chapter 8   Migraine and other primary headache disorders
Peter J Goadsby

Chapter 9   Neuropathic pain
Philip J Siddall

Chapter 10   Pain management in cancer patients
Muhammad Salman Siddiqi and Paul Glare

Chapter 11   Pain in children and adolescents
Matthew Crawford, Tamara Lang, Hsuan-Chih Lao, and David Champion

SECTION 2   THE SCIENCE

Chapter 12   Opioids and their signalling mechanisms at opioid receptors
Macdonald J Christie

Chapter 13   Gates and other theories of pain
Lucy A Bee and Anthony H Dickenson

Chapter 14   Neuroinflammation, TNF, and pain
Kinshi Kato, Veronica I Shubayev, and Robert R Myers

Chapter 15   Skin, neurons, neuroglia, and pain          
Patricia J Armati

SECTION 3   THE CLINICAL INTERFACE

Chapter 16   The biopsychosocial model of chronic pain
Tony Merritt, Louise Sharpe, and Jade Hucker

Chapter 17   Psychological approaches to chronic pain
Tony Merritt, Louise Sharpe, and Jade Hucker

Chapter 18   Integration of primary care into the management of chronic pain
Geoffrey Mitchell

References

Index