Integrative Pain Medicine
Subtitle: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management (Contemporary Pain Medicine)
Contributors: Joseph F. Audette (Editor); Allison Bailey (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Humana Press; Humana
Published: February 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781588297860
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; Pain & pain management; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Anesthesiology; Internal Medicine; Pain Medicine; Alternative; Complementary; Integrative; Medical / Pain Medicine; Pain Management
Description: This book fills a need in the developing area of Pain Medicine. It provides physicians with an up-to-date resource that details the current understanding about the basic science underlying the mechanism of action of the various CAM therapies used for pain. It summarizes the clinical evidence both for efficacy and safety, and finishes with practical guidelines about how such treatments could be successfully and safely integrated into a Pain practice.