Pain Medicine Treatise: Chronic Non-Oncological Pain — Multidimensional Approach and Interventionism

Pain Medicine · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Un compendio exhaustivo y de nivel de subespecialidad médica sobre los sustratos moleculares, la fisiopatología, la evaluación de precisión y las estrategias intervencionistas de vanguardia en los principales síndromes dolorosos de difícil manejo.

What it covers

1. Chronic Non-Oncological Pain
2. Neurobiology and Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain
3. · Nociceptive Transduction Mechanisms
4. · Peripheral Sensitization: The Inflammatory Soup
5. · Central Awareness: The "Wind-up" Mechanism and LTP
6. · The Tripartite Synapse: Microglial and Astrocytic Activation
7. · Descending Modulatory Pathways: The Balance of Inhibition and Facilitation
8. Multidimensional Pain Assessment
9. · Quantitative Sensory Assessment (QST)
10. · Multidimensional Measurement Scales
11. Lumbar, Cervical and FBSS/PSPS Radiculopathy
12. · Mechanism of Endoneural Ischemia and Edema
13. · Post-surgical Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome (PSPS Type 2 / FBSS)
14. Facet Syndrome and Sacroiliac Involvement
15. · Facet Joint Syndrome (Zygapophyseal Arthritis)
16. · Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
17. · Facet Precision Locking Algorithm
18. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
19. · Three-Dimensional Pathophysiology of CRPS
20. · Budapest Clinical Diagnostic Criteria (IASP Consensus)
21. · Cortical Somatocognitive Reorganization
22. Common Clinical Neuropathies
23. · Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (NDD)
24. · Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN)
25. · Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy (CIPN)
26. Craniofacial Neuralgias
27. · Pathogenesis of Neurovascular Conflict (Classical NT)
28. · Glossopharyngeal and Occipital Neuralgia (Arnold)
29. · Trigeminal Autonomic Headaches (CAT)
30. Post-Stroke Central Pain and Spinal Cord Injury
31. · Post-Stroke Central Pain Syndrome (Dejerine-Roussy)
32. · Central Pain due to Spinal Cord Injury (DLM)
33. Fibromyalgia and Collective Central Sensitization
34. · Pathophysiology of Central Amplification
35. · ACR Diagnostic Criteria 2010/2016 (American College of Rheumatology)
36. Myofascial Pain Syndrome
37. · Simons' Integrated Hypothesis for PGMs
38. · Active vs. Latent Trigger Points
39. Chronic Pelvic Pain
40. · Viscerosomatic Convergence in the Posterior Horn
41. · Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Syndrome
42. · Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Syndrome
43. High Specialty Pharmacotherapy in Chronic Pain
44. · Gabapentinoids: Ligands of the Alpha-2-Delta Subunit (α₂-δ)
45. · Dual Antidepressants (SNRI) and Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCA)
46. · The Great Clinical-Scientific Debate: Opioids in Non-Oncological Pain
47. · Pharmacotherapeutic Guide to Specific Molecules
48. Interventionist Procedures and Blockades
49. · Precision Transforaminal Epidural Block
50. · Radio Frequency (RF) Conventional vs. Pulsed
51. Neuromodulation and Intrathecal Infusion
52. · Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)
53. · Cutting-edge Technological Advances in Neuromodulation
54. · Intrathecal Drug Infusion Systems