Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD

Professor of Anesthesiology

President-elect, American Academy of Pain Medicine

Director, Cleveland Clinic Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program

Departments of Pain Management and Neurosciences

Cleveland Clinic Anesthesiology Institute and Lerner Research Institute

Cleveland, OH

Richard W. Rosenquist, MD

Chairman, Department Pain Management

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, OH

Provides a quick intro to pain medicine for readers from a wide range of backgrounds

Part I: Diagnosis of Pain States.- Chapter 1 Overview of Pain States.- Chapter 2 Pathways of Pain Perception and Modulation.- Chapter 3 Mechanisms of Physiologic Pain.- Chapter 4 Mechanisms of Pathologic Pain.- Chapter 5 Pain Assessment.- Chapter 6 Diagnosis of Pain States.- Part II: The Management of Pain States.- Chapter 7 Psychological Management of Pain.- Chapter 8 The Management of Pain States: Pharmacologic Treatment.- Chapter 9 Interventional Approaches.- Chapter 10 Surgical Approaches to Chronic Pain.- Chapter 11 Alternative and Complementary Approaches in Pain Management.- Chapter 12 Palliative Care.- Part III: Painful Disease States: Acute Pain.- Chapter 13 Surgical Pain.- Chapter 14 Traumatic Pain.- Chapter 15 Mechanisms of Labor Analgesia.- Chapter 16 Ischemic Pain.- Part IV: Painful Disease States: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.- Chapter 17 Spine Pain.- Chapter 18 Joint Pain.- Chapter 19 Myofascial Pain Syndrome.- Part V: Radicular Pain.- Chapter 20 Cervical Radicular Pain.- Chapter 21 Thoracic Radicular Pain.- Chapter 22 Lumbosacral Radicular Pain.- Part VI: Painful Disease States: Neuropathic Pain.- Chapter 23 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.- Chapter 24 Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia.- Chapter 25 Peripheral Neuropathy.- Chapter 26 Peripheral Neuralgia and Entrapment Neuropathies.- Chapter 27 Trigeminal Neuralgia.- Chapter 28 Central Pain Syndromes.- Part VII: Painful Disease States: Chronic Visceral Pain.- Chapter 29 Abdominal Pain.- Chapter 30 Urogenital and Pelvic Pain.- Part VIII: Painful Disease States: Headaches.- Chapter 31 Primary Headaches.- Chapter 32 Secondary Headaches.- Chapter 33 Orofacial Pain Syndromes (Trigeminal Neuralgia excluded).- Part IX: Painful Disease States in Special Populations.- Chapter 34 Pediatric Pain.- Chapter 35 Geriatric Pain.- Chapter 36 Pain in the Critically Ill Patient.