Evidence-based chronic pain management

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions: Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering; Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used; Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent; Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain.