Assessing Chronic Pain: A Multidisciplinary Clinic Handbook (Contributions to Psychology and Medicine)

**Assessing Chronic Pain** offers a unique approach to the evaluation and assessment of treatment for chronic pain patients. Rather than adhering to the criteria of any one discipline's approach to treating chronic pain, whether that of anesthesia, physical therapy, psychiatry or psychology, the editors overview a range of disciplines, and focus on the integration of those approaches to achieve what they term a "handbook", rather than a textbook, for the assessment of chronic pain from a multidisciplinary perspective. Issues confronting clinicians have been compounded by procedural problems and assessment indecision, but in **Assessing Chronic Pain,** Drs. Camic and Brown create a framework to guide specialists in all fields in approaching the patient suffering from chronic, non-malignant pain. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction to Multidisciplinary Pain Assessment....Pages 1-4 Physiology, Anatomy, and Pharmacology of Pain Perception....Pages 5-19 The Physical Examination of the Patient in Pain....Pages 20-46 Psychological Assessment of the Chronic Pain Patient: Behaviors, Cognitions, and Dynamics....Pages 47-70 Psychometric Evaluation....Pages 71-90 Role of the Anesthesiologist in the Treatment of Pain....Pages 91-114 Pharmacologic Treatment of Chronic Pain....Pages 115-147 Psychiatric Examination and Treatment Determination....Pages 148-160 The Conservative Medical Management of Pain....Pages 161-169 Neurosurgical Approaches to Chronic Pain....Pages 170-183 Dental Pain: Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders....Pages 184-228 Bringing It All Together: Developing the Clinical Team....Pages 229-248 Back Matter....Pages 249-257