Basic Understanding of Pain Medicine.
1. The challenge of pain: A multidimensional phenomenon (Mary Lynch, Kenneth D. Craig & Philip W.H. Peng).

2. Epidemiology and Economics of chronic and recurrent pain (Dennis C. Turk Brian R. Theodore).

3. Basic Mechanisms and Pathophysiology (Daniel J Cavanaugh & Allan I Basbaum).

4 Psychosocial Perspectives on Chronic Pain (Kenneth D. Craig & Judith Versloot).

5 Identification of Risk and Protective Factors in the Transition from Acute to Chronic Post Surgical Pain (Joel Katz & Gabrielle Page).

6 Placebo/Nocebo: a two-sided coin in the clinician's hand (Antonella Pollo & Fabrizio Benedetti).

Assessment of Pain.

7 Clinical Assessment in Adult Patients (Christine Short & Mary Lynch).

8 Measurement and Assessment of Pain in Pediatric Patients (Jennifer Stinson & Patrick McGrath).

9 Laboratory Investigations, Imaging, and Neurological Assessment in Pain Management (Pam Squire, David Walk, Gordon Irving, & Miroslav Backonja).

10 Psychological Assessment (Robert N. Jamison & Kenneth D. Craig).

Management.

11 Introduction (Mary Lynch).

12 Managing Chronic Pain in Primary Care (Blair Smith, Beverly Collett, Alexander J Clark).

Pharmacotherapy.

13 NUTRITION AND PAIN MANAGEMENT: DIETARY SOY AS AN ANALGESIC MODALITY (Alexis Codrington, Stephanie Chevalier and Yoram Shir).

14 Pharmacotherapy: Antidepressant analgesics in the management of chronic pain (C. Peter N. Watson).

15 Anticonvulsants in the management of chronic pain (Nanna Brix Finnerup ,Cathrine Baastrup, Troels Staehelin Jensen).

16 Opioids (Gilbert Fanciullo and Dawn Sparks).

17 Topical analgesics (Jana Sawynok).

18 Other pharmacological agents (Philip Peng & Mary Lynch).

Interventional.

19 Diagnostic and therapeutic blocks (Boris Spektor, Padma Gulur, James Rathmall).

20 Neuromodulation therapy (Krishna Kumar and Sharon Bishop).

Physical therapy and Rehabilitation.

21 Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (Maureen Simmonds and Timothy Wideman).

Psychological.

22 Pain Self-Management: Theory and Process for Clinicians (Michael McGillion, Sandra M. LeFort, Karen Webber and Jennifer Stinson)

23 Psychological Interventions: Cognitive Behavioural and Stress Management Approaches (Heather Hadjistavropoulos, Amanda C de C Williams and Kenneth D. Craig).

24 Pain catastrophizing and fear of movement:Detection and Intervention (Michael J Sullivan and Timothy H Wideman).

Complimentary Therapies.

25 COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES (Mark Ware).

Specific Clinical States.

26 Chronic Low Back Pain (Eugene Carragee and Don Young Park).

27 Fibromyalgia syndrome and myofascial pain syndromes (Winfried Häuser, Marcus Schiltenwolf, Peter Henningsen).

28 CLINICAL PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES (Mary-Ann Fitzcharles).

29 Headache (Stephen Silberstein).

30 Orofacial Pain (Barry Sessle , Lene Baad-Hansen & Peter Svensson).

31 Visceral Pain (Klaus Bielefeldt & Gerald Gebhart).

32 Pelvic and Urogenital Pain (Anjali Martinez & Fred Howard).

33 Neuropathic Pain (Maija Haanpää and Rolf-Detlef Treede).

34 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Michael Stanton- Hicks).

35 Cancer Pain management (David Hui & Eduardo Bruera).

Special population.

36 Pain in Older Persons: A Brief Clinical Guide (Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Stephen Gibson & Perry G. Fine).

37 Pain in Children (onya M. Palermo, Jeffrey L. Koh & Lonnie K. Zeltzer).

38 Pain in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Tim F. Oberlander, Chantel C. Burkitt & Frank J. Symons).

39 Pain and Addiction (Roman Jovey).

40 Pain and Psychiatric Illness (Harold Merskey).

41 Neurosurgical management of Pain (Diaa Bahgat, Ashwin Viswanathan & Kim J Burchiel)