Pain Medicine. Board Review

Table of Contents

Section 1: General
1. Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission
2. Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation
3. Embryologic Development of Pain Systems
4. Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies About Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine
5. Public Health Aspects of Pain Medicine and Legal/Regulatory Environment
6. Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research

Section 2: Assessment and Psychology of Pain
7. Clinical Evaluation of Pain
8. Placebo and Pain
9. Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging
10. Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain
11. Sex and Gender Issues in Pain

Section 3: Treatment of Pain - Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Adverse Effects, Drug Interactions, and Indications/Contraindications
12. Opioid Pharmacology
13. Antipyretic Analgesics: Nonsteroidals, Acetaminophen, and Phenazone Derivatives
14. Antidepressants and Anticonvulsants
15. Miscellaneous Agents: Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Adverse Effects, Drug Interactions, Indications/Contraindications

Section 4: Treatment of Pain - Other Methods
16. Psychological Treatments: Cognitive Behavioral and Behavioral Interventions
17. Psychiatric Treatment
18. Stimulation-Produced Analgesia
19. Interventional Pain Management Including Nerve Blocks and Lesioning
20. Surgical Pain Management
21. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Modalities and Treatment
22. Work Rehabilitation and Management of Return to Work
23. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Section 5: Clinical States - Taxonomy
24. Taxonomy of Pain Systems

Section 6: Tissue Pain
25. Acute Pain
26. Cervical Radicular Pain
27. Neck Pain
28. Lumbar Radicular Pain
29. Low Back Pain
30. Musculoskeletal Pain
31. Muscle and Myofascial Pain

Section 7: Visceral Pain
32. Visceral Pain Anatomy and Pain Modulation
33. Visceral Pain-Classification and Management
34. Pain in Pregnancy and Peripartum

Section 8: Headache and Facial Pain
35. Headache
36. Orofacial Pain: Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Management

Section 9: Nerve Damage
37. Neuropathic Pain
38. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Section 10: Special Cases
39. Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
40. Pain in Older Adults
41. Pain Issues in Individuals with Limited Ability to Communicate Due to Neurocognitive Impairments
42. Chronic Pain and Addiction
43. Pain Relief in Areas of Deprivation and Conflict

Authors

Blessen C. Eapen Chief, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. Blessen Eapen is the Chief of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Department at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and is a Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Eapen is a physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator who has received numerous professional awards and honors and has authored many peer-reviewed publications, chapters and books in the field of rehabilitation medicine David Cifu Associate Dean of Innovation and System Integration and Eminent Scholar; Herman J. Flax, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Senior Consultant, Sheltering Arms Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; Senior TBI Specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Researcher, Central Virginia Veteran's Healthcare System; Principal Investigator, (LIMBIC-CENC), Richmond, Virginia, USA. David Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M.D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University, staff physiatrist at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, founding director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and senior TBI specialist in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration.