Integrative Pain Management
Author(s): Robert A Bonakdar (Editor), Andrew W Sukiennik
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 26 Feb. 2016
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 928 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199315248
- ISBN-13: 9780199315246
Book Description
Integrative Pain Management provides an overview of pain physiology, current conventional care options, an understanding of integrative medicine as it applies to pain management, the role of pain practitioners when working collaboratively, and the utilization of an expansive and patient-centered treatment model. This comprehensive guide written by experts in the field provides case examples of pain conditions, reviews common integrative treatments including physical therapy, behavioral strategies, and advanced procedures to maximize function and reduce pain, and extensive further reading resources. Part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, this volume offers clinicians treating pain innovative and patient-centered tools for approaching their most difficult cases to improve their approach and outcomes. The book provides access to additional online content that supplements some of the integrative interventions discussed including videos of tai chi in pain management, a demonstration of motivational interviewing as practitioner empowerment, and figures including the STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) for spine care. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative. Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is "to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically."
Editorial Reviews
Review
Featured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018
"This comprehensive book is a milestone not only in [Dr. Sukiennik's] personal journey but also for the field [of integrative pain medicine] at large. It brings the intellectual imprimatur of Oxford University Press to the field of integrative medicine, that is rapidly adopting current standards of evidence-based practice. This volume, with contributions from many of [Dr. Sukiennik's] clinical colleagues at Tufts together with other national and international authorities, is a comprehensive source of up-to-the-minute information on all important modalities now employed in the practice of integrative pain medicine." -- Daniel B. Carr, MD, DABPM, FFPMANZCA (Hon)
Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
Founding Director, Program on Pain Research, Education and Policy
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
"As a fellow specializing in integrative and behavioral approaches in primary care I have leveraged this text both to refine my patient care approach and as a framework for curriculum development. Dr. Bonakdar's book provides practical information that is immediately applicable in patient care and transformative to clinical practice. One needs only to consider national expenditure on pain management along with the obvious downfalls of narcotic overuse to sense the enormous need for this text. This book is a body of knowledge that rethinks pain management from an area of frustration and suffering to one of hope and potential." -- Karen Spurgeon Welch, MD, ABFM
Fellow in Integrative Medicine and Behavioral Health
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
"This is an excellent book that I highly recommend to clinicians or students who treat pain or individuals who experience pain. This is a rich source of research-based information from a diverse group of experts with a wide range of experience and knowledge. " -Doody"s Health Sciences
Review
A comprehensive guide that provides case examples of pain conditions, reviews common integrative treatments including physical therapy, behavioral strategies, and advanced procedures to maximize function and reduce pain.
Review
Featured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018
"This comprehensive book is a milestone not only in [Dr. Sukiennik's] personal journey but also for the field [of integrative pain medicine] at large. It brings the intellectual imprimatur of Oxford University Press to the field of integrative medicine, that is rapidly adopting current standards of evidence-based practice. This volume, with contributions from many of [Dr. Sukiennik's] clinical colleagues at Tufts together with other national and international authorities, is a comprehensive source of up-to-the-minute information on all important modalities now employed in the practice of integrative pain medicine." -- Daniel B. Carr, MD, DABPM, FFPMANZCA (Hon)
Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
Founding Director, Program on Pain Research, Education and Policy
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
"As a fellow specializing in integrative and behavioral approaches in primary care I have leveraged this text both to refine my patient care approach and as a framework for curriculum development. Dr. Bonakdar's book provides practical information that is immediately applicable in patient care and transformative to clinical practice. One needs only to consider national expenditure on pain management along with the obvious downfalls of narcotic overuse to sense the enormous need for this text. This book is a body of knowledge that rethinks pain management from an area of frustration and suffering to one of hope and potential." -- Karen Spurgeon Welch, MD, ABFM
Fellow in Integrative Medicine and Behavioral Health
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
"This is an excellent book that I highly recommend to clinicians or students who treat pain or individuals who experience pain. This is a rich source of research-based information from a diverse group of experts with a wide range of experience and knowledge. " -Doody"s Health Sciences
About the Author
Robert Bonakdar is the Director of Pain Management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Andrew W. Sukiennik is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts Medical School and Winchester Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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