"No matter what questions arise in practice or while preparing for boards, Pain Management Secrets, 3rd Edition has the answers. A two-color page layout, portable size, and a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in pain management help you better meet the challenges you face today. You'll find all the features you rely on from the Secrets Seriesª--a question-and-answer format, lists, mnemonics, tables and an informal tone--that make reference fast and easy."--Publisher's website.

I: Overview: Definitions -- Classification of pain -- Basic mechanisms -- Topiceuticals -- II: Clinical approach: History taking in the patient with pain -- Physical examination of the patient with pain -- Pain measurement -- Psychological assessment of chronic patients -- III: Clinical syndromes defined by pain: Neuroimaging in the patient with pain -- Tension-type headache -- Migraine -- Cluster headache -- The paroxysmal hemicranias -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Brain tumor headaches -- Increased and decreased intracranial pressure -- Temporal giant cell arteritis -- Headaches associated with systemic disease -- Trigeminal neuralgia -- Glossopharyngeal and other facial neuralgias -- Low back pain -- Neck and arm pain -- Abdominal pain -- Chronic pelvic pain -- Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain -- IV: Syndromes in which pain is a significant component: Postoperative pain management -- Cancer pain syndrome -- Pain in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis -- Neuropathic pain -- V: Psychological syndromes: Psychological syndromes -- VI. Special patient populations: Pain in children -- Pain in the older patient -- VII: Pharmacologic management: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- Opioid analgesics -- Addiction and pain management -- Regulatory issues -- Adjuvant analgesics -- VIII: Nonpharmologic management: Temporary neural blockade -- Permanent neural blockade and chemical ablation -- Sympathetic neural blockade -- Intraspinal opioids -- Neurostimulatory and neuorablative procedures -- Psychological constructs and treatment interventions -- Physiatric modalities in pain management -- Physical modalities: adjunctive treatments to reduce pain and maximize function -- Pain clinics -- Interventional pain management -- Complementary and alternative medicine.