Orofacial Pain: Problem based learning
E. Russell Vickers
Sydney University Press
ISBN:
1920898107
This book is designed for undergraduates through to experienced clinicians in dentistry, medicine and physiotherapy, in addition to the general public suffering from orofacial pain.
The scope of orofacial pain is discussed with reference to prevalence, gender effects of the female predisposition to orofacial pain, and the molecular and biological changes that occur in the transition from acute to chronic pain. Information is given on appropriate pharmacological tests and treatments.
There are detailed patient cases at the end of each chapter that teaches the reader how to identify relevant physical changes and psychometric tests to measure levels of depression, anxiety and stress in the clinical situation.
It is a comprehensive evidenced based book with new information on neuropathic orofacial (trigeminal) pain derived from over 200 patients from the Pain Management and Research Centre, University of Sydney.
The book emphasises the biopsychosocial model of pain with associated distress and suffering. The book is 302 pages and contains 18 colour plates, 7 grayscale plates, 57 figures and tables, and is extensively referenced.
About the Author
Russell Vickers is an oral / maxillofacial surgeon and pain management specialist. He graduated in dentistry in 1977 and practises in Sydney. He has worked in the area of orofacial pain for 17 years, initially at the Sydney Dental Hospital pain clinic and since 1992 has worked in a large medically based pain clinic, the Pain Management and Research Centre, University of Sydney located at Royal North Shore Hospital.
He is actively involved in orofacial pain education lecturing to undergraduate students, teaches Graduate Diploma and Master degree postgraduate courses in pain management and supervises PhD scholars in the Faculty of Medicine.
In the basic science laboratories at the Pain Management Research Institute he develops methods of analytical chemistry using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for investigating hormones involved in pain mechanisms, local anaesthetics, pharmacology and proteomics.
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