"Comprehensive in scope and invaluable for both practitioners and students, Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist, Second Edition, thoroughly covers the wide range of issues requiring the interdisciplinary management of pain. Joined by more than 20 international contributors, Dr. Kathleen Sluka provides a practical, evidence-based framework for understanding the basics of pain mechanisms and management. This highly regarded, updated text covers the basics of pain neurobiology and reviews evidence on the mechanisms of action of physical therapy treatments, as well as their clinical effectiveness in specific pain syndromes."--Back cover.

"International Association for the Study of Pain."

Introduction : definition, concepts, and models of pain / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Peripheral pathways involved in nociception / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Central nociceptive pathways / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Motor control and pain / Paul W. Hodges -- Individual differences and pain variability / Laura Frey Law and Steven Z. George -- Pain assessment / Josimari M. DeSantana and Kathleen A. Sluka -- General principles of physical therapy practice / Kathleen A. Sluka -- The specific influences of non-specific effects / Mark D. Bishop and Joel E. Bialosky -- Education and self-management for pain control / Kathleen A. Sluka and G. Lorimer Moseley -- Exercise-induced hypoalgesia : an evidence-based review / Marie Hoeger Bement and Kathleen A. Sluka -- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) and interferential therapy (ift) / Kathleen A. Sluka and Deirdre M. Walsh -- Overview of other electrophysical agents including thermal modalities / G. David Baxter and Jeffrey R. Basford -- Manual therapy / Kathleen A. Sluka and Stephan Milosavljevic -- Interdisciplinary pain management / Harriet Wittink -- Medical management of pain / Eva Kosek -- Psychological approaches in pain management / Dennis C. Turk and Hilary D. Wilson -- Myofascial pain and fibromyalgia syndrome / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Temporomandibular disorders and headache / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Low back pain / Steven Z. George and Katie A. Butera -- Neck pain / Michele Sterling -- Neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis / Kathleen A. Sluka -- Pain associated with central nervous system disorders : central neuropathic pain / Sonja Bareiss and Dana Dailey -- Case studies / Kathleen A. Sluka and Carol G.T. Vance.