Pain 1999 - An Updated Review
Refresher Course Syllabus
9th World Congress on Pain^®

Table of Contents

Cancer Pain

Opioid and Adjuvant Analgesics. Russell K. Portenoy

Substance Abuse Issues in Cancer Pain Management Steven D. Passik, Russell Portenoy, and Jeremy C. Lundberg

Cancer Pain. Eduardo Bruera and Catherine M. Neumann

Visceral Pain: Mechanisms and Update

Physiology and Physiopathology of Visceral Pain. Fernando Cervero

Pain of Pelvic Origin (Urological and Gynecological). Ursula Wesselmann

Pain from the Gastrointestinal System. Fernando Azpiroz

Role of the Brain in Pain Processing

Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Pain Experience: A Distributed Processing System. Robert C. Coghill

Central Pain from Brain Lesions. Jörgen Boivie

Functional Anatomy of Supraspinal Pain Processing with Reference to the Central Pain Syndrome. A. D. (Bud) Craig

Principles of Addiction Medicine for the Pain Clinician

Diagnosing Addiction and Drug-seeking Behavior in Chronic Pain Patients. Brian Goldman

Screening for Addiction Risk in Patients with Pain. Roman D. Jovey

Pain, Opioids and Addiction - the Neurobiological Roots. Roman D. Jovey

Chronic Pain and the Disease of Addiction: The Interfacing Roles of Pain Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Seddon R. Savage

Physical Fitness, Physical Function, and Physical Therapy in Patients with Pain

Physical Function and Physical Performance in Patients with Pain: What Are the Measures and What Do They Mean?  Maureen Simmonds

Physical Fitness, Function and Physical Therapy in Patients with Pain: Clinical Measures of Aerobic Fitness and Performance in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. Harriët Wittink

Physical Activity and Low Back Pain. Elizabeth J. Protas

Non-Physiological Determinants of Physical Performance in Musculoskeletal Pain. Paul J. Watson

The Role of Movement in Acute Pain. Vicki Harding

Headache and Orofacial Pain

Prophylaxis of Migraine and Other Headaches. Hans-Christoph Diener and Volker Limmroth

New Aspects of the Pathophysiology of Migraine and Cluster Headache. Peter J. Goadsby

"The Triptan War Anno 1999". Michel D. Ferrari and Krista I. Roon

Orofacial Pain: Assessment and Management. Steven B. Graff-Radford

Psychological Assessment of the Pain Patient for the General Clinician

Psychological Assessment of the Pain Patient for the General Clinician. Francis J. Keefe, Laurence A. Bradley, and Chris J. Main

Practical Management of Chronic Pain in Children

Management of Chronic Pain in the Newborn. Neil McIntosh

Complementary Methods of Chronic Pain Control in Children. Sally E. Tarbell

Medical Considerations in the Management of Chronic Pain in Children. G. David Champion, Justin H.N. Kong, and Belinda Goodenough

Introductory Course in Anesthesiological and Neurosurgical Interventional Techniques of Pain Management

Ablative Neurosurgery for Pain. John D. Loeser

Electric Stimulation of the Central Nervous System. Björn A. Meyerson and Bengt Linderoth

Neural Blockade and Pain Management. Michael J. Cousins and Suellen M. Walker

Design of Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments

Methodological Issues in the Design of Analgesic Clinical Trials. Mitchell Max

Drug Combination Studies. James C. Eisenach

Hypothesis Confirmation - Form Follows Function. Curtis Wright IV

Within-Patient Studies: Cross-Over Trials and n-of-1 Studies.Stephen Senn

Scientific Basis for the Evaluation and Treatment of RSD/CRPS Syndromes

Scientific Basis for the Evaluation and Treatment of RSD/CRPS Syndromes: Laboratory Studies in Animals and Man. Gary J. Bennett

Assessing Sympathetic Nervous System Function in CRPS Patients: Scanning Doppler Fluxmetry. Jahangir Maleki

Inflammatory Aspects of RSD. Peter H.J.M. Veldman

How to Improve Clinical Practice in Pain Treatment: Consultation, Clinician and Patient Education, and Quality Improvement Approaches

Development and Maintenance of an Acute Pain Management Program. Christine Miaskowski

How to Improve Clinical Practice in Oncology Pain Management. Judith A. Paice

How to Improve Clinical Practice in Pain Treatment: Consultation Clinician, Patient Education and Quality Improvement. Robyn Quinn

Clinical Approach to Spinal Pain

Back Pain and Neck Pain: An Evidence-Based Update. Nikolai Bogduk and Leslie Barnsley

Advanced Analgesic Pharmacology for the Clinical Investigator

The Roles of Transmitters and Their Receptors in Systems Related to Pain and Analgesia. Anthony H. Dickenson

Centrally-Acting Analgesics That Mimic Endogenous Inhibitory Neurotransmitters. Donna L. Hammond

Peripheral Analgesic Pharmacology - An Update. Raymond G. Hill

New Developments in Evidence-Based Decision Making: Relevance to Pain Treatment and Research

The Cochrane Collaboration and its Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Review Group. Daniel B. Carr, Phil Wiffen, Frances Fairman, and Matthew LeMaitre

How to Assess Harm: Lessons from Acute Postoperative Pain. Jayne E. Edwards, Henry J. McQuay, R. Andrew Moore, and Sally L. Collins

New Developments in Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Relevance to Pain Treatment and Research. R. Andrew Moore

Clinical Pharmacology of the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain

Clinical Pharmacology of the Treatment of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Geoffrey K. Gourlay

Opioid Toxicities - Assessment and Management. Eduardo Bruera and Catherine M. Neumann

Controlling Acute Pain - Role of Pre-emptive Analgesia, Peripheral Treatment, and Balanced Analgesia, and Effects on Outcome. Henrik Kehlet

Clinical Pharmacology of Acute Pain: Postoperative Pain, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Migraine. John L. Plummer

Philosophy and Pain or What Leading Philosophers (Living and Dead) Can Contribute to Pain Research and Clinical Care

Phenomenism Versus Representationism. Ned Block

An Experimental Paradigm for the 'Hard' Problems of Pain and Consciousness. Donald D. Price and James J. Barrell

Between First-Person and Third-Person Accounts of Pain in Clinical Medicine. Mark Sullivan

Advanced Basic Science of Pain: Genes and Pain

Molecular Approaches for the Study of Pain-Differential Gene Expression. Clifford J. Woolf, Richard J. Mannion, and Michael Costigan

Expression Cloning of Sensory Receptors. David Julius

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pain

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain. Judith A. Turner and Francis J. Keefe

Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for the Secondary Prevention of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. Steven J. Linton

Introduction to the Basic Science of Pain and Headache for the Clinician

Introduction to the Basic Science of Pain and Headache for the Clinician: Anatomical Concepts. Karin N. Westlund

Introduction to the Basic Science of Pain and Headache for the Clinician: Physiological Concepts. William D. Willis, Jr.

Pharmacology of Pain and Analgesia. George L. Wilcox

Author Index

Subject Index