Health & Fitness : Pain Management

Imagery has occupied an important place in the healing arts of many cultures. In the West, this approach had been relegated to obscurity for several centuries, but it again has assumed a position of prominence. This book familiarizes the reader with information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a tool for pain management. more...

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Disease, whether it is acute, chronic, or at end stage, is all too regularly accompanied by pain. Pain is often difficult to control, in malignant disease in particular, even by using appropriate medications. Anesthesiologists and pain therapists have developed new invasive therapies including nerve block, sympatholysis, and neurolysis useful for both diagnosis and pain management. To insure the efficiency and safety of these procedures, and furthermore for elaborate techniques such as vertebroplasty, cementoplasty, and radio frequency bone ablation, imaging guidance becomes mandatory. This state-of-the-art book describes the techniques elaborated by interventional radiologists in the treatment and palliation of a variety of benign and malignant painful conditions. Each chapter written by an expert in the field concentrates on a particular aspect of pain management, with emphasis on practical issues. This book will serve as an invaluable source of information for the radiologist willing to learn about new pain therapy techniques aimed at optimizing or replacing more invasive traditional methods. more...

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... und jetzt ein kA1/4nstliches Kniegelenk? Mit dieser Frage mA1/4ssen sich allein in Deutschland Jahr fA1/4r Jahr etwa 125 000 Knie-Patienten auseinander setzen. Obgleich die Wahrscheinlichkeit hoch ist, dass sich mit einem a žneuen Knie" die LebensqualitAt der Betroffenen deutlich verbessern wA1/4rde, zAgern viele Patienten aus Angst und Unwissenheit die Entscheidung fA1/4r die Operation unnAtig hinaus. Der Ratgeber enthAlt wichtige Informationen zu kA1/4nstlichen Kniegelenken und dazu, auf welche Weise sie im KArper funktionieren. Details zu Krankengeschichten und Prothesentypen, zur Anatomie des Kniegelenks und zur Entstehung, AusprAgung und Behandlung von Arthrose sowie zu Methoden der Physiotherapie. Zahlreiche Berichte von Patienten werden mit objektiven fachArztlichen ErlAuterungen verknA1/4pft. Checklisten, Aoebersichten und Hervorhebungen ermAglichen eine schnelle Orientierung. Aoebungsanleitungen fA1/4r das tAgliche Bewegungstraining des operierten Knies geben Hinweise fA1/4r den Weg aus dem Schmerz. more...

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In Living Through Pain Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person-body, mind, spirit, and community-Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Swenson shows how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. more...

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Chronic pain is a condition that afflicts over 50 million Americans. Chronic pain can be a symptom of a variety of illnesses, injuries, or chronic conditions. From back pain to migraine headaches to arthritis, from sports injuries to cancer, chronic pain can afflict anyone at any age. more...

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