Pain in Older Persons
- ISBN-10
- 0931092590
- ISBN-13
- 9780931092596
- Category
- Medical / Pain Management
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- IASP Press
- Authors
- Stephen J. Gibson, Debra K. Weiner
Description
As the world's population grows steadily older, medical practitioners, scientists, and educators are beginning to turn more attention to the problem of pain and its undertreatment in older adults. In the nine years since IASP published Pain in the Elderly (B.R. Ferrell and B.A. Ferrell, editors), the field has flourished, learning more about the neurobiology of pain in older adults, discovering new ways to treat pain, and identifying areas whose further development will substantively improve the care of older adult pain patients. This volume highlights major new accomplishments in such areas as the neurobiology of pain, age-related psychological and cognitive differences in pain perception, and the assessment of pain in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired older persons. Treatments such as oral analgesics, physical therapy techniques, cognitive-behavioral therapy, complementary and alternative medicine applications, and multidisciplinary pain management clinics are discussed, as are low back pain, neuropathic pain, postoperative pain, and end-of-life issues. This volume not only will help to update the field as a whole, but will also stimulate new thinking and development in this critical area.
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