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Treatment. Communication. Return to Work. Cognitive-behavioural. Pathophysiology.

ISBN 0 9533423 4 4
Paperback/950g
Pages: 430
Published: 2006
Price: £28.50
Publisher: CNS Press

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Features

• Largest volume in the series packed with useful clinical information
• Timely overview of all the issues surrounding Return-to-work.
• See how an understanding of Return-to-work can be integrated into your practice and the management of all patients.
• As always, the latest research facts and findings made palatable for the clinician to understand and use.
• The influence of good and bad communication on your outcomes - and how to improve communication to enhance outcomes.
• Yet more cutting edge material helping physiotherapy integrate cognitive-behavioural methods of management.
• Helps you understand the fascinating world of pain processing and pain physiology - changing circuitry in the brain!
• Manual therapy and pain physiology- changing the old for the new!
• How to help patients set targets and reach goals.
• Helps you enjoy your work! Reduces therapist stress and burn out!

Topical Issues in Pain 5 Editor Louis Gifford

Part 1

Treatment

• Chapter 1. Manual therapy in the 21st century. Steve Robson & Louis Gifford
• Chapter 2. A practical guide to goalsetting. Peter Gladwell

Part 2

Communication

• Chapter 3. Communication and Assessment: What are the issues for physiotherapists? Steve Goldingay
• Chapter 4. Communication and Assessment: The skills of information gathering. Steve Goldingay
• Chapter 5. Communication within therapeutic encounters: Message received and understood? Anne Daykin
• Chapter 6. Words that help, Words that harm. Jennifer Klaber-Moffett, Angela Green & David Jackson
• Chapter 7. Do investigations reassure patients and health professionals? Penny Mortimer

Part 3

Return to Work

• Chapter 8. The epidemiology and costs of sickness absence and unemployment. Gail Sowden
• Chapter 9. Vocational rehabilitation. Gail Sowden
• Chapter 10. Obstacles to return to work: beliefs and behaviours. Gail Sowden
• Chapter 11. Chronic Pain and the Benefits System: Obstacles to returning to work for unemployed patients. Paul Watson & Shilpa Patel
• Chapter 12. Addressing return to work issues. Jaqueline Adams
• Chapter 13. Evidence based management of low back pain in occupational health. Nicola Hunter

Part 4

Cognitive-behavioural

• Chapter 14. Psychosocial approaches to managing pain: Current status and future directions. Francis Keefe, Cindy Scipio & LisaCaitlin Perri
• Chapter 15. Post traumatic stress disorder: A cognitive behavioural perspective. Sharon Wilday
• Chapter 16. Learning to facilitate change in cognition and behaviour. Mark Jones & Ian Edwards
• Chapter 17. Pain management: Integrating physiotherapy and clinical psychology practice. Richard Johnson & Lorraine Moores

Part 5

Pathophysiology

• Chapter 18. Making sense of "S1 mania" Are things really that simple? Lorimer Moseley
• Chapter 19. Muscle activity and back pain. George Koumantakis
• Chapter 20. Clinical pain, experimental evidence: Molecular mechanisms within the spinal cord Stephen Thompson

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