A nation in pain : healing our nation's biggest health problem /

In A Nation in Pain, Foreman offers a sweeping, deeply researched account of the chronic pain crisis, from neurobiology to public policy, and presents to practical solutions that are within our grasp today. Drawing on both her personal experience with chronic pain and her background as an award-winn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foreman, Judy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary, NC : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Chronic pain > United States.
Chronic pain > Treatment > United States.
Opioid abuse > United States > History.
Pain > Alternative treatment.
Pain Management
Chronic Disease > therapy
Douleur chronique > États-Unis.
Douleur chronique > Traitement > États-Unis.
Toxicomanie aux opiacés > États-Unis > Histoire.
Douleur > Médecines parallèles.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Chronic pain.
Chronic pain > Treatment.
Opioid abuse.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The enormity of the problem
  • What is pain, anyway?
  • The genetics of pain
  • Gender and pain
  • Children in pain
  • The mind-body in pain
  • Opioid wars : part I
  • Opioid wars : part II
  • How the immune system cranks up pain
  • Marijuana : the weed america loves to hate
  • Beyond opioids : western medicine
  • Beyond opioids : complementary and alternative medicine
  • Exercise : the real magic bullet
  • The way forward.

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