Smerter. Baggrund, evidens og behandling
Reviewed Publication:
Werner Mads U. Finnerup Nanna B. Arendt-Nielsen Lars Smerter. Baggrund, evidens og behandling 4th Edition FADL’s Forlag 2019 978-87-7749-834-3 750 Pages
This is a major textbook in the Danish language, understood and read in all five Nordic countries with almost 30 million inhabitants, edited by three internationally well-known pain scientists and pain clinicians. There are seven main sections with chapters dealing with all significant areas and issues in pain-physiology and pain mechanisms in acute, chronic, cancer-related, in cancer-survivors, in children and in the elderly, covering pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment approaches, and organisation of pain management.
Each chapter is written in precise style, well-illustrated, often enhancing the clinical picture by describing patient-cases, their presentation, diagnosis, management, and outcome. Mostly the level of knowledge is up-to-date, e.g. they cover well the recent focus on negative cognitive and respiratory effects of the gabapentinoids, especially when combined with opioids. On the other hand they have missed the recent well-documented central mechanisms of the prodrug paracetamol, and surprisingly there is no information on the major tramadol misuse/abuse problems being revealed in several countries. This is particularly noticeable as in Denmark physicians are still prescribing tramadol about 10 times as often as in the other Nordic countries.
This text-book is highly recommendable for students and practitioners at all sites and levels of pain-patient care.
©2019 Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial comment
- Quadratus lumborum block for the benefit of patients after full abdominoplasty?
- Systematic review
- Low-grade inflammation causes gap junction-coupled cell dysfunction throughout the body, which can lead to the spread of systemic inflammation
- Topical reviews
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and chronic pain conditions – vitally protective systems gone wrong
- The use of posture-correcting shirts for managing musculoskeletal pain is not supported by current evidence – a scoping review of the literature
- Clinical pain researches
- Quadratus lumborum block for postoperative analgesia after full abdominoplasty: a randomized controlled trial
- Associations of physical activity or sedentary behaviour with pain sensitivity in young adults of the Raine Study
- The importance of emotional distress, cognitive behavioural factors and pain for life impact at baseline and for outcomes after rehabilitation – a SQRP study of more than 20,000 chronic pain patients
- Pressure pain thresholds in adults with patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis: a case-control study
- Somatocognitive therapy of women with provoked vulvodynia: a pilot study
- Acceptance: a factor to consider in persistent pain after neck trauma
- Chronic low back pain is highly individualised: patterns of classification across three unidimensional subgrouping analyses
- Peak expiratory flow rate and thoracic mobility in people with fibromyalgia. A cross sectional study
- The association between insomnia, c-reactive protein, and chronic low back pain: cross-sectional analysis of the HUNT study, Norway
- Chronic musculoskeletal pain, phantom sensation, phantom and stump pain in veterans with unilateral below-knee amputation
- Observational study
- The importance of weak physical performance in older adults for the development of musculoskeletal pain that interferes with normal life. A prospective cohort study
- Original experimentals
- Pain-related factors in older adults
- Effects of intraplantar administration of Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) on rotarod performance in mice
- Walking increases pain tolerance in humans: an experimental cross-over study
- Survey on sedation-analgesia regimens, in particular the use of dexmedetomidine, among Dutch implanters of spinal cord neurostimulators
- Educational case report
- A case report of wireless peripheral nerve stimulation for complex regional pain syndrome type-I of the upper extremity: 1 year follow up
- Short communications
- Validity of self-reported assessment of Severity of Dependence Scale in Medication-Overuse Headache
- Improving patient–practitioner interaction in chronic pain rehabilitation
- Book reviews
- Smerteboken – fra vondt til bedre
- Smerter. Baggrund, evidens og behandling
- Neuropathic Pain: A Case-Based Approach to Practical Management
- Perioperative Pain Management for Orthopedic and Spine Surgery
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum to: Reducing risk of spinal haematoma from spinal and epidural pain procedures
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial comment
- Quadratus lumborum block for the benefit of patients after full abdominoplasty?
- Systematic review
- Low-grade inflammation causes gap junction-coupled cell dysfunction throughout the body, which can lead to the spread of systemic inflammation
- Topical reviews
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and chronic pain conditions – vitally protective systems gone wrong
- The use of posture-correcting shirts for managing musculoskeletal pain is not supported by current evidence – a scoping review of the literature
- Clinical pain researches
- Quadratus lumborum block for postoperative analgesia after full abdominoplasty: a randomized controlled trial
- Associations of physical activity or sedentary behaviour with pain sensitivity in young adults of the Raine Study
- The importance of emotional distress, cognitive behavioural factors and pain for life impact at baseline and for outcomes after rehabilitation – a SQRP study of more than 20,000 chronic pain patients
- Pressure pain thresholds in adults with patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis: a case-control study
- Somatocognitive therapy of women with provoked vulvodynia: a pilot study
- Acceptance: a factor to consider in persistent pain after neck trauma
- Chronic low back pain is highly individualised: patterns of classification across three unidimensional subgrouping analyses
- Peak expiratory flow rate and thoracic mobility in people with fibromyalgia. A cross sectional study
- The association between insomnia, c-reactive protein, and chronic low back pain: cross-sectional analysis of the HUNT study, Norway
- Chronic musculoskeletal pain, phantom sensation, phantom and stump pain in veterans with unilateral below-knee amputation
- Observational study
- The importance of weak physical performance in older adults for the development of musculoskeletal pain that interferes with normal life. A prospective cohort study
- Original experimentals
- Pain-related factors in older adults
- Effects of intraplantar administration of Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) on rotarod performance in mice
- Walking increases pain tolerance in humans: an experimental cross-over study
- Survey on sedation-analgesia regimens, in particular the use of dexmedetomidine, among Dutch implanters of spinal cord neurostimulators
- Educational case report
- A case report of wireless peripheral nerve stimulation for complex regional pain syndrome type-I of the upper extremity: 1 year follow up
- Short communications
- Validity of self-reported assessment of Severity of Dependence Scale in Medication-Overuse Headache
- Improving patient–practitioner interaction in chronic pain rehabilitation
- Book reviews
- Smerteboken – fra vondt til bedre
- Smerter. Baggrund, evidens og behandling
- Neuropathic Pain: A Case-Based Approach to Practical Management
- Perioperative Pain Management for Orthopedic and Spine Surgery
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum to: Reducing risk of spinal haematoma from spinal and epidural pain procedures
