Pain

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Matisyohu Weisenberg, Bernard Tursky

   Pages 1-9

3. Organization and Function of a Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

   • John J. Bonica

   Pages 11-20

4. Behavioral Techniques in the Control of Pain: A Case for Health Maintenance vs. Disease Treatment

   • C. Norman Shealy, Mary-Charlotte Shealy

   Pages 21-33

5. Pain Control as a Multidisciplinary Problem

   • Austin H. Kutscher

   Pages 35-42

6. Acupuncture Analgesia: A Six-Factor Theory

   • John F. Chaves, Theodore Xenophon Barber

   Pages 43-65

7. A Clinical View of the Effectiveness of Hypnosis in Pain Control

   • Kay F. Thompson

   Pages 67-73

8. Psychophysiological Rationale for the Application of Biofeedback in the Alleviation of Pain

   • Charles F. Stroebel, Bernard C. Glueck

   Pages 75-81

9. Long-Term Evaluation of Conservative Treatment for Myofascial Pain-Dysfunction Syndrome

   • Charles S. Greene, Daniel M. Laskin

   Pages 83-91

10. Pain Control as a Factor in Preventive Health Care

    • Jeannette F. Rayner

    Pages 93-112

11. Teaching Behavioral Pain Control to Health Professionals

    • Matisyohu Weisenberg

    Pages 113-133

12. Pain: Past, Present, and Future

    • Ronald Melzack

    Pages 135-145

13. Pain in Peripheral Neuropathy Related to Size and Rate of Fiber Degeneration

    • Peter James Dyck, E. H. Lambert, Peter O’Brien

    Pages 147-153

14. A Behavioral Animal Model for the Study of Pain Mechanisms in Primates

    • R. Dubner, R. E. Beitel, F. J. Brown

    Pages 155-170

15. The Development of a Pain Perception Profile: A Psychophysical Approach

    • Bernard Tursky

    Pages 171-194

16. Pain Sensitivity and the Report of Pain: An Introduction to Sensory Decision Theory

    • W. Crawford Clark

    Pages 195-222

17. Back Matter

    Pages 223-231

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With the growing realization that pain and its control are vital areas for both theoretical and practical research as well as clinical treatment has come the desire for an assessment of the state-of-the-art. Pain research by itself is not new. Yet, approaches to the study and control of pain are new. This book is based upon a symposium-workshop on the study and control of pain that took place at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance­ ment of Science, January, 1975. It was destgned to deal with a number of theoretical and clinical issues. We at­ tempted to assess previous years of research, how conceptions of pain phenomena have changed and what are some of the gaps in our knowledge. Presentations were also geared to show our increased methodological sophistication. Clinically, we have also changed our treatment conceptualization of pain control. We have not merely added a few "tricks" to deal with pain. Entirely new approaches are now available. View­ ing pain as a public health problem we find many areas of needed research that should be directed toward the epidemio­ logy of pain, the reduction of fear of obtaining health care, and unmet treatment needs. Obviously, this book cannot provide full, comprehensive treatment of all the issues involved. It can, however, pro­ vide the reader with an understanding of the current, major thrusts, new research and treatment goals in pain control.

• Public Health
• assessment
• health
• health care
• public health problem

• University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

  Matisyohu Weisenberg

• State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

  Bernard Tursky

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