Titlebook: Questions and Answers in Pain Medicine; A Guide to Board Exa Michael Suer,Nalini Sehgal Textbook 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Painful Neuropathiespain is due to spontaneous activity of the nervous system or aberrant response to normal sensory stimulation in the case of allodynia. Special cases of neuropathic (complex regional pain, post-herpetic neuralgia, and post-amputation pain) are presented in the next chapters.

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Physical Examination and Assessmentic pain complaint, providing specific information about diagnosis, localizing pain pathology, or evaluating for urgent referral or next steps in the management of pain. Surpassed only by the patient history, a detailed physical examination is a very useful tool a pain physician can utilize. In contr

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Psychological Interventions and Pharmacologyese medications. Further, non-pharmacologic psychological interventions remain a mainstay in treating psychological conditions in the pain patient. Consisting of drugs from multiple categories including serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SN

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Neurophysiologic Testingelp analyze patient’s response to treatments. Ideally, questionnaires are both sensitive and specific for the clinical question queried and be able to be answered quickly by patients. Providers in our clinical practice tend to use the Oswestry Disability Index and the VR-12 for the purpose of evalua

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Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Painify and treat. The diagnostic process has undergone recent progression due to improved understanding of the underlying disease processes. Both diagnoses can cause significant pain and disability and are often misunderstood by many providers who frequently rely on pain providers for accurate diagnosi

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Central Painve significant overlap in their mechanisms and treatment algorithms. The classic disorders consist of post-stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis. Treatment of central pain can be difficult with total resolution of pain to be rare. Medications are important but on

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Headache Disorders order to successfully manage headaches which can have significant impact on mood and quality of life. Headache diagnoses are categorized into primary (headache itself is the illness) and secondary (identifiable structural or metabolic abnormality) disorders by the International Headache Society (IC