Reviews"Good resources for pain medicine board examination preparation have been hard to come by over the years. Pain Medicine Board Review is a welcome addition. One of our recent American Board of Anesthesia Pain Medicine Board examinees, a newly minted pain physician, found the questions in the book to be both high yield for the examination and helpful in terms of getting him more comfortable as he enters the early stages of his career as a pain physician." -- Anesthesia & Analgesia, "Good resources for pain medicine board examination preparation have been hard to come by over the years. Pain Medicine Board Review is a welcome addition. One of our recent American Board of Anesthesia Pain Medicine Board examinees, a newly minted pain physician, found the questions in the book to be both high yield for the examination and helpful in terms of getting him more comfortable as he enters the early stages of his career as a pain physician." --Anesthesia & Analgesia
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Table Of Content1. Pain Anatomy and Physiology 2. Literature Review and Evidence 3. Pain Research: Placebo, Animal Models, Ethics and Epidemiology 4. Psychology of Pain: Psychological Assessment and Treatment of Pain 5. Gender Differences in Pain 6. Imaging 7. Addiction and Pain 8. Pharmacology 9. Miscellaneous Pharmacology 10. Neuromodulation Techniques 11. Pain Management Techniques 12. Musculoskeletal Pain 13. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Electrodiagnosis 14. Complementary Therapies (CAM) 15. Work Rehabilitation 16. Acute Pain Management and Tissue Pain 17. Chronic Cancer Pain 18. Cervical Radicular Pain 19. Low Back and Radicular pain 20. Pelvic Pain 21. Obstetric Pain 22. Headache 23. Orofacial Pain 24. Neuropathic Pain 25. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 26. Pediatric Pain and Development of Pain Systems 27. Geriatric Pain 28. Pain Relief in Areas of Deprivation and Conflict
SynopsisPain Medicine Board Review is a comprehensive guide for preparing for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification or recertification in Pain Medicine, and for residents preparing for in-training examinations in Pain Medicine. The text is organized into 28 chapters covering topics such as Anatomy, Physiology of Pain, Pharmacology, Diagnosis of Pain, and various pain syndromes. Each section includes questions, answers, and detailed explanations with highlighted key points, and concise further reading lists. Questions follow the ABMS style, and the explications of answers carefully address all points in the ABMS content outline for Pain Medicine. A section on imaging includes high quality magnetic resonance images, ultrasound images, fluoroscopic images and other images that will enable the examination candidate to answer questions that determine knowledge of pathological states as compared to normal and complications of treatments., Containing concise content review, board-style questions and answers with explanations, and key references, Pain Medicine: A Comprehensive Board Review for Primary and Maintenance of Certification is a high-yield, efficient study aid for residents preparing for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification or recertification in Pain Medicine.