Comprehensive in scope and invaluable for both practitioners and students, Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist, 2nd Edition, thoroughly covers the wide range of issues requiring the interdisciplinary management of pain. Joined by more than 20 international contributors, Dr. Kathleen Sluka provides a practical, evidence-based framework for understanding the basics of pain mechanisms and management. This highly regarded, updated text covers the basics of pain neurobiology and reviews evidence on the mechanisms of action of physical therapy treatments, as well as their clinical effectiveness in specific pain syndromes.

The second edition features:
Basic Concepts and Mechanisms - provides a clear infrastructure for the rest of the book.
Physical Therapy Pain Management - focuses attention on pain regardless of medical diagnosis, using evidence to support clinical decision making.
Interdisciplinary Pain Management - includes both medical management of pain and psychological approaches to pain.
Case Studies - discuss a series of pain syndromes using an evidence-based approach.

Table Of Contents
Section I: Basic Concepts and Mechanisms
Chapter 1. Introduction: Definition, Concepts, and Models of Pain
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 2. Peripheral Pathways Involved in Nociception
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 3. Central Nociceptive Pathways
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 4. Motor Control and Pain
Paul W. Hodges
Chapter 5. Individual Differences and Pain Variability
Laura Frey Law and Steven Z. George

Section II: Physical Therapy Pain Management
Chapter 6. Pain Assessment
Josimari M. DeSantana and Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 7. General Principles of Physical Therapy Practice
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 8. The Specific Influences of Non-Specific Effects
Mark D. Bishop and Joel E. Bialosky
Chapter 9. Education and Self-Management for Pain Control
Kathleen A. Sluka and G. Lorimer Moseley
Chapter 10. Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia: An Evidence-Based Review
Marie Hoeger Bement and Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 11. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Interferential Therapy (IFT)
Kathleen A. Sluka and Deirdre M. Walsh
Chapter 12. Overview of Other Electrophysical Agents including Thermal Modalities
G. David Baxter and Jeffrey R. Basford
Chapter 13. Manual Therapy
Kathleen A. Sluka and Stephan Milosavljevic

Section III: Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Chapter 14. Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Harriet Wittink
Chapter 15. Medical Management of Pain
Eva Kosek
Chapter 16. Psychological Approaches in Pain Management
Dennis C. Turk and Hilary D. Wilson

Section IV: Pain Syndromes
Chapter 17. Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 18. Temporomandibular Disorders and Headache
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 19. Low Back Pain
Steven Z. George and Katie A. Butera
Chapter 20. Neck Pain
Michele Sterling
Chapter 21. Neuropathic Pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 22. Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kathleen A. Sluka
Chapter 23. Pain Associated with Central Nervous System Disorders: Central Neuropathic Pain
Sonja Bareiss and Dana Dailey
Chapter 24. Case Studies
Kathleen A. Sluka and Carol G.T. Vance