To date, little has been published about the place of spirituality in working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Overcoming Conflicting L...

Mitch Yass's practice serves 8,000 physical therapy patients and 4,000 personal training clients. He was lead lecturer for the NYC exhibit Bodies -...

Paclitaxel is an antimitotic drug that promotes microtubule polymerisation and produces sensitisation to radiation. Paclitaxel is a first-line drug...

This book provides a view of some problems encountered in the treatment of pain (mainly chronic, non-cancer pain and certainly not an exhaustive vi...

From Hippocratic medicine through modern theory, the concept and physiopathology of pain has been developed from religious and philosophical to a m...

Since pain management became a speciality in its own right and following the tremendous breakthroughs made by several pioneer researchers, we have ...

In the past years, neuroimaging techniques provided a better insight into mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. C...

Having cancer doesn't mean that you'll have pain. But if you do, you can manage most of your pain with medicine and other treatments. This book wil...

The topics covered within this book aim to consolidate some of the current thinking around pain in children. For many years it was believed that ch...

Pain management (also called pain medicine) is the discipline concerned with the relief of pain. Acute pain, such as occurs with trauma, often has ...

In the year 2008 the new "Journal of Pain Management" was begun under the auspicies of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...

This new book examines the issue of pain in individuals with intellectual disabilities by introducing the topic, as well as suggesting a model for ...

In this yearbook for 2011 we start out with a description of research from the University of Toronto in Canada on bone metastases. The next section...

In this yearbook for 2012 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start our with experience from Hong Kong on palliative car...

In this yearbook for 2013 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start out with knee, pain in persons with intellectual dis...

In this yearbook for 2014 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start out with the ethical mind of "Dr Feelgood", discuss ...

In this yearbook for 2016 we present you with some of the latest research on pain management. We start out with chapters on nausea, lead and cancer...

In this yearbook for 2017 we present you with some of the latest research on pain management. We start out with a section on psychosocial and ethic...

Pain is an unpleasant sensation. It is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotiona...

A great number of cancer patients will suffer some form of social, emotional or psychological distress and challenges as a result of the disease an...

Training in palliative medicine for clinical oncologists in Hong Kong is organised by the Palliative Medicine Subspecialty Board under the Hong Kon...

This book provides a new outlook on the practice of palliative care worldwide. All five continents are represented in this book by global leaders i...

In the Middle East, as in other countries in the developing world, there is now a wide acceptance that palliative care is an important public healt...