Author Description

Pain and pain management is a subject that is all too often neglected or disregarded. This is the first practical guidebook for non-specialists to examine why this is so and what can be done, by all health care providers, to improve their understanding of pain and its management It explores the mechanisms involved in pain perception and then develops this understanding to explain the use of analgesic drugs, local anaesthetics, nerve blocks, and stimulation techniques. It then goes on the provide practical guidelines for the rehabilitation and management of patients whose pain cannot be adequately relieved. Practical Pain Management has been designed with one purpose: to help non-specialists provide the best possible care for patients in pain. Any health care worker who comes into contact with patients suffering pain will benefit from this book's practical, common-sense approach to pain management.