Introduction: concepts of pain --Anatomy and physiology of pain -- Management of postinjury and postoperative pain -- Management of cancer pain -- Evaluation and management of low back pain -- Neuropathic pain -- Management of orofacial pain -- Pain in children -- Miscellaneous pain states -- Appropriate use of narcotics in severe pain -- Surgery for pain -- Management of neck pain and other spinal pain -- Pain in the thoracic spine -- The Chronic pain syndrome and the pain treatment center -- Narcotic use in chronic pain of benign origin -- Management of pain in arthritis -- Fibromyalgia -- Index.