Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches

1. Pain as a Perceptual Experience

2. Neuroplasticity, Sensitization, and Pain

3. Muscle Pain Treatment

4. Addictive Disorders and Pain

5. The "Five-Minute" Mental Status Examination of Persons with Pain

6. The Psychological Assessment of Patients with Chronic Pain

7. Psychological Therapies

8. Billing Psychological Services for Patients with Chronic Pain

9. Hypnosis and Pain Control

10. Acupuncture

11. Manual Therapies

12. Treatment of Chronic Painful Musculoskeletal Injuries and Diseases with Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT): Regenerative Injection Therapy Principles and Practice

13. Interdisciplinary Functional Restoration and Pain Programs

14. Pain and Spirituality

15. Pain Disparity: Assessment and Traditional Medicine

16. Sleep and Chronic Pain

17. Empowerment: A Pain Caregiver's Perspective

18. Patient and Caregiver's Perspective

19. Pain Medicine in Older Adults: How Should It Differ?

20. Pain Medicine and Primary Care: The Evolution of a Population-Based Approach to Chronic Pain as a Public Health Problem

21. Pain Care Beyond the Medical Practice Of?ce: Utilizing Patient Advocacy, Education, and Support Organizations

22. Neonatal Pain

23. Assessing Disability in the Pain Patient

24. The Double Effect: In Theory and in Practice

25. Failure to Treat Pain

Timothy S. Deer, MD

Editor-in-Chief

President and CEO

The Center for Pain Relief

Charleston, WV USA

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Charleston, WV USA



Michael S. Leong, MD

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Clinic Chief

Stanford Pain Management Center

Redwood City, CA USA

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA USA



Albert L. Ray, MD

Associate Editor, Integrative Approaches

Medical Director

The LITE Center

South Miami, FL USA

Clinical Associate Professor

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, FL USA

"The book approaches chronic pain from many different clinical perspectives. It offers unique and diverse topics related to pain management intertwining a theme of understanding the psychological aspects of chronic pain. ... this is a reference that will enhance the clinical knowledge of ALL psychologists at various training and career levels, as well as other professionals to treat patients with chronic pain and lower the cost chronic pain has on our society." (Angela M. Kuemmel and Cynthia Van Keuren, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (42) October, 2015)

"Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches is a major textbook...[I]t should be a part of all departmental libraries and in the reference collection of pain fellows and pain practitioners. In fact, this text could be to pain as Miller isto general anesthesia." Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

"Although the primary audience is chronic pain physicians and primary care givers, anyone managing patients with chronic pain conditions in their practice will find the book very useful. ... The information is extremely practical and clinically useful...Both the content and the short discussions in each chapter make it a good pain reference for a busy practice." Doody's Book Reviews