Chad Brummett is Clinical Lecturer and Director of Pain Research, Dept of Anesthesiology, Back and Pain Center, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Steven Cohen is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Director of Medical Education, Pain Management Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Pain Pain Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

• I. Pharmacologic Therapies ; 1. Opioids ; Jianren Mao, Lucy Chen, and Steven P. Cohen ; 2. NSAIDs and Adjunctive Pain Medications ; Howard Smith,Charles Argoff, and Kalyna Apkarian ; 3. Phytomedicines for the Treatment of Pain ; Julia Vlachojannis and Sigrun Chrubasik ; II. Non-Pharmacologic Pain Therapies ; 4. Psychotherapy for Pain: Cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and exercise ; David A. Williams and Afton L. Hassett ; 5. Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Pain ; Richard Harris and Suzie Zick ; III. Additional Considerations in the Pain Patient ; 6. Management of Addiction in the Pain Patient ; Glenn Treisman ; 7. Sleep and Pain ; Michael Sternberg, Helen A. Baghdoyan, and Ralph Lydic ; Case-Based Pain Chapters ; 8. Low back pain-Axial LBP, radicular pain, SI joints ; Steven P. Cohen, Artemus Flagg, and Julie H.Y. Huang ; 9. Neck and Upper Extremity Radicular Pain ; Robert W. Hurley and Tomas Kucera ; 10. Arthritis ; Kristine Phillips ; 11. Neuropathies- DPN, HIV, idiopathic ; Thomas Brannagan and Christina M. Ulane ; 12. Chronic Post-Surgical and Post-Traumatic Pain ; Chad M. Brummett and Srinivas Chiravuri ; 13. Herpes Zoster and Postherptic Neuralgia ; Mark Wallace, Andrei Sdrulla, and Julie H.Y. Huang ; 14. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ; Salim Hayek and Henry Vucetic ; 15. Headache ; Wade Cooper ; 16. Non-Cardiac Chest Pain ; Guy Eslick and Sharon X. H. Hu ; 17. Abdominal Pain ; Ami Sperber and Roy Dekel ; 18. Pelvic Pain ; Suzie As-Sanie and Devon Shuchman ; 19. Central Pain- post-stroke pain, phantom pain, spinal cord injury ; Brian G. Wilhelmi and Srinivasa Raja ; 20. Fibromyalgia and Other Disorders of Central Pain Processing ; Daniel J. Clauw

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