About the Contributors.
Preface.

Section I: Understanding chronic pain and evidence.

1. Why evidence matters.

2. Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments.

3. Introduction to evaluation of evidence.

4. Neurobiology of pain.

5. Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote.

6. Psychology of pain.

Section II: Chronic pain syndromes.

7. Low back pain.

8. Neck pain.

9. Pain associated with osteoarthritis.

10. Pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

11. Fibromyalgia.

12. Facial pain.

13. Chronic pelvic and perineal pain in women.

14. Pelvic and perineal pain in males.

15. Pain from abdominal viscera.

16. Post-surgical pain syndromes.

17. Painful diabetic neuropathy.

18. Phantom limb pain.

19. Complex regional pain syndrome.

20. Central pain syndromes.

21. Headache.

22. Chest pain syndromes.

Section III: Cancer pain management.

23. Oncological treatments for cancer pain.

24. Analgesics and co-analgesics in cancer pain.

25. TENS and acupuncture for cancer pain.

26. Psychological interventions for cancer pain.

Section IV: Chronic pain therapies.

27. Interventional therapies.

28. Rehabilitative treatment for chronic pain