Chronic Pain Management for Physical Therapists

This is a great new book on chronic pain management written specifically for physiotherapists. This unique resource provides practitioners and students with practical information for treating patients with chronic pain.

Reflecting state-of-the-art and current practice in chronic pain management for physical therapists, this innovative text stands out as the first published work to focus on this aspect of the field. The book makes a clear distinction between acute and chronic pain, providing the essentials on how different cultures express and treat pain, discussion of how to treat problematic patient populations (such as substance abusers), and alternative/complementary therapies including acupuncture, energy therapy and Tai Chi.

The first and only book on the topic written specifically for physical therapists

New chapters on selected syndromes, alternative therapies, the sociology of chronic pain and evidence-based outcomes in chronic pain management

Diagrams and figures to illustrate anatomical concepts