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Placebo and nocebo - astonishing findings that all clinicians and patients need to understand and feel comfortable with.
A number of internationally renowned clinicians and researchers have come together to produce the first published attempt to broadly address and critically appraise the placebo and nocebo phenomenon from a clinical perspective for physiotherapists.
The information and the way the material is presented should fascinate as well as challenge readers to think and work differently.
Pain management - three more topics on this important area.
Cutting edge research material on muscle pain presented and interpreted for instant clinical access. Many current beliefs about the role of muscles in pain come under scrutiny and some are constructively challenged by new proposals.
We are now getting a much better understanding of what leads to chronicity and poor outcomes - much of the material here will guide better management of acute musculoskeletal pain states.

Topical Issues in Pain 4 Editor Louis Gifford

Part 1: Placebo and nocebo.
This section contains 6 challenging and fascinating chapters. It reviews the literature from an almost entirely clinical perspective - with the aim of helping us all to understand the placebo and nocebo phenomenon for the benefit of our patients in a non-threatening way. It really puts to sleep a great many misunderstandings about the phenomenon and makes powerful new proposals relevant to all clinical work.

Part 2: Pain management
Three more pain management topics are addressed here - the integration of pain management approaches and techniques for therapists working with individual patients or in 'out patient' settings; information giving for patients and the clinical reasoning behind information giving; and addressing the taxing problem of improving fitness in patients with chronic pain related incapacity.

Part 3: Muscles and pain
This section of the book is devoted to some major issues surrounding the relationship of muscles to pain. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the work presented here is that physiotherapy, if it fully integrates the information provided into clinical practice, should be increasingly recognised as the central and essential component of modern management of musculoskeletal pain states.

Foreword: Liz Macleod, PPA North Chairperson 2002
Preface: Louis Gifford.

Introductory Essay:

Introduction to the 4th edition of Textbook of Pain. Patrick Wall

Part 1

Placebo and nocebo

Chapter 1. Placebo and patient care. Patricia Roche
Chapter 2. The reality of the placebo response. Nigel Lawes
Chapter 3. Placebo and the Therapeutic Alliance. Mitch Noon
Chapter 4. The Powerful Placebo- Hit or Myth? Richard Shortall
Chapter 5. The Information we give may be detrimental. Caroline Hafner
Chapter 6. An Introduction to evolutionary reasoning: - Diets, discs, fevers and the placebo. Louis Gifford

Part 2

Pain management

Chapter 8. The biopsychosocial approach and low back pain. Heather Muncey
Chapter 9. Explaining pain to patients. Heather Muncey
Chapter 10. Improving physical function in chronic pain syndrome patients. Babs Harper

Part 3

Muscles and pain

Chapter 11. Psychophysiological models of pain. Paul Watson
Chapter 12. Back muscle function and low back pain. Patricia Dolan
Chapter 13. Fibromyalgia - a single case study. Lorraine Moores
Chapter 14. The epidemiology of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Ann Papageorgiou

For further information, see the Synopsis page or click on the chapter number you would like more information on.

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Placebo and nocebo. Pain management. Muscles and pain.

ISBN 0 9533423 3 6 Paperback/500g Pages: 255 Published: 2002 Price: £26.50 Publisher: CNS Press Add: Postage Standard | Air Mail Outside Europe This book is postage free in the UK.

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Foreword: Liz Macleod, PPA North Chairperson 2002 Preface: Louis Gifford.