Akhtar Purvez

Managing Chronic Pain in an Age of Addiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a nation, we are facing an unprecedented opioid crisis that is killing more than 65,000 people a year. It is destroying our families and decimating our neighborhoods. And it is costing us billions. As more and more people are dealing with chronic pain, and as the opioid crisis reaches epic proportions, alternative approaches to understanding pain and its management are necessary.

Here, Dr. Akhtar Purvez, a seasoned researcher, pain specialist, and pain advocate, offers basic information about pain and pain conditions and considers how we approach pain from cultural, biological, and medical perspectives. He discusses the latest minimally invasive, interventional approaches like nerve blocks and ablation procedures, and neuromodulation techniques like peripheral nerve, spinal cord, and brain stimulation. The uses of marijuana and associated interventions is reviewed, and Purvez walks readers through the process of assessing pain, finding a doctor who can treat it, and methods for coping with pain through non-medical approaches like meditation. Anyone coping with pain or helping someone who is will find here a ready resource that offers hope and understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538109243
• Artikelnr.: 53494524

Autorenporträt

Akhtar Purvez, MD, is a pain physician, researcher, author, speaker, and pain advocate. He has been actively practicing interventional pain management in Charlottesville, Virginia for the last two decades. In his practice, he offers a comprehensive approach that includes interventional, minimally invasive techniques in combination with non-opioid medications, physical therapy with stress on an active exercise program, and healthy lifestyle changes. He is actively involved in teaching the general public about safer options to manage chronic pain in an effort to improve their functionality and quality of life. He is the author of Managing Chronic pain in an Age of Addiction (Rowman & Littlefield) and resides in Charlottesville, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
, A Long Way from Kashmir
,
Chapter One:
, Medications that Heal--and Kill
,
Chapter Two:
, The Opiod Epidemic that is Killing Us
,
Chapter Three:
, On Addiction Management
,
Chapter Four:
, A Mystery and a Prize
,
Chapter Five:
, Complex Nature of Chronic Pain
,
Chapter Six:
, Culture of Pain
,
Chapter Seven:
, The Stigma of Pain
,
Chapter Eight:
, Chronic Pain and Depression
,
Chapter Nine:
, Obesity and Chronic Pain
,
Chapter Ten:
, Finding the Right Specialist
,
Chapter Eleven:
, Searching for the Cause of Pain
,
Chapter Twelve:
, Fibromyalgia Gets Real
,
Chapter Thirteen:
, Other Pain Conditions
,
Chapter Fourteen:
, Getting Moving--Exercise and Physical Therapy
,
Chapter Fifteen:
, Interventional Pain Management
,
Chapter Sixteen
, Alternative Management Options
,
Chapter Seventeen:
, Marijuana--The Mystery Drug
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Chapter Eighteen:
, Pain in the Courtroom
,
Chapter Nineteen:
, Co-existing with Pain
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Chapter Twenty:
, Toward a Painless Future
,