Chronic Pain Reading Recommendations

[Shalom77]

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I'm going to shadow a pain doctor who does mostly (all?) chronic pain.

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for articles (or book chapters) that might be useful to read for an overview so I can be more knowledgable while shadowing.

Thanks

 

[Hoya11]

expert guide to pain management, mccarberg and passick chapter 1 especially

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

I'm not familiar with that book, but I can't help commenting on the irony of recommending something written by a family doctor and a psychologist.

 

[ampaphb]

I'm not familiar with that book, but I can't help commenting on the irony of recommending something written by a family doctor and a psychologist.

Passick is hardly the average psychologist

 

[Tenesma]

MGH handbook - concise, succinct, quick

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

Passick is hardly the average psychologist

No argument there, but even Passik can't talk his way into the epidural space.

There's a free pain manual available at painedu.org. There is very little in it about interventional management techniques but you can't beat the price. Use someone else's printer to make a hard copy - it's over 200 pages. The file is about 1.7M and should fit on a typical PDA that is capable of reading PDF files.

 

[Shalom77]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. 🙂

I got both books out of the library. I think the "expert guide to pain management" is a little easier to read and perhaps a better fit to the philosophy of the clinic. Or maybe it's just that I've never really liked reading those MGH manuals - but I do agree the info in there is helpful. I really liked the website (pain.edu) - did some of the cases on there as well as looked at pain manual on my computer - instant access. 🙂 They actually will send you a copy of for free (so they say) - for those like me who are lacking a printer to smooch off of.

Actually after my first two days of shadowing - which were very interesting 🙂 - I realized I need to do some remedial neurology reading. The management part was a lot clearer to me than the examination/evaluation.