Pain: A textbook for health professionals provides a comprehensive guide to pain and pain management with a focus on interprofessional practice.

Written by internationally acclaimed authors and fully updated to reflect latest evidence and understanding, this book bridges the gap between theoretical underpinning and practice for assessment and management of patients with persistent pain – all in clear and accessible language.

Now in its third edition, the text emphasises personal aspects of pain and the therapeutic alliance, as well as social and cultural aspects of pain, pain education for patients, and multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working. It will provide both students and clinicians with a new lens through which to understand a person’s pain experience, as well as tools for effective management.

Foreword to the first edition

Foreword to the Second edition

Foreword to the third edition

Preface

1. Introduction to pain

2. The patient’s voice

3. Developing your communication toolkit: a practical guide for healthcare professionals

4. Social determinants of pain

5. The psychology of pain: implications for the assessment and management of people in pain

6. Neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system

7. Neurophysiology of pain

8. Assessing pain

9. Pain education for patients

10. Participating in life roles through self-management

11. Exercise therapy

12. Psychological management of pain

13. Neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome

14. Manual therapy and influence on pain perception

15. Pain pharmacology and the pharmacological management of pain

16. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture

17. Workplace rehabilitation

18. Multidisciplinary and interprofessional working

19. Pain in childhood

20. Pain in older adults

21. Cancer pain

22. Inequities in pain: pain in low- and middle-income countries and among indigenous peoples

23. Chronic pain and psychiatric problems

24. Acute pain

25. Persistent pain and the law: legal aspects of persistent pain management

26. Conclusions: the future