This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows. Acting as both an introduction and continued reference for various levels of training, this guide provides practitioners with up-to-date academic standards. In order to comprehensively meet the need for such a contemporary text-treatment options, types of pain management, and variables affecting specific conditions are thoroughly examined across 48 chapters. Categories of pain conditions include orofacial, neuropathic, visceral, neck, acute, muscle and myofascial, chronic urogenital and pelvic, acute, and regional. Written by renowned experts in the field, each chapter is supplemented with high-quality color figures, tables and images that provide the reader with a fully immersive educational experience. 

Academic Pain Medicine: A Practical Guide to Rotations, Fellowship, and Beyond is an unprecedented contribution to the literature that addresses the wide-spread requisite for a practical guide to pain medicine within the academic environment.

<p>Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission

Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation
Development of Pain Systems
Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies about Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine
Animal Models of Pain and Ethics of Animal Experimentation
Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research
Assessment and Psychology of Pain
Placebo and Pain
Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging
Epidemiology
Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain
Sex and Gender Issues in Pain
Treatment of Pain: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse effects, drug interactions, and indications/contraindications
Psychological Treatments
Psychiatric Treatment
Stimulation-Produced Analgesia
Interventional Pain Management
Surgical Pain Management
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Taxonomy of Pain Systems
Acute Pain
Cancer Pain
Cervical Radicular Pain
Neck Pain
Lumbar Radicular Pain
Low Back Pain
Musculoskeletal Pain
Muscle and Myofascial Pain.</p><p></p>