ABC of Pain

Chronic pain is a very common problem, impacting on many patients. Assessment and management can be challenging. The ABC of Pain focuses on the pain management issues often encountered in primary care.

Covering major chronic pain presentations, such as musculoskeletal pain, low back pain and neuropathic pain, the ABC of Pain also provides guidance on the management of pain in pregnancy, children, older adults, drug dependency and the terminally ill. Beginning with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic pain, pain mechanisms and the assessment of pain, it then provides practical guidance on interventional procedures and methods of effective pain management.

The ABC of Pain is a comprehensive, evidence-based reference. It is ideal for GPs, junior doctors, nurse specialists in primary care, palliative care specialists, and also hospital and hospice staff managing chronically and terminally ill patients.

JEAN-GUILLAUME DUMAS is Professor at the University of Grenoble, where he teaches security, programming languages, cryptology, and computer algebra.

JEAN-LOUIS ROCH is Associate Professor at the National Polytechnique Institute of Grenoble (INPG), and teaches security, coding theory, cryptology, parallelism, and algorithms.

ÉRIC TANNIER is Research Associate at the National French Institute for Computer Science (INRIA). He works in computational biology in the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (LBBE) of the University of Lyon.

SÉBASTIEN VARRETTE is Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg. He works in the High Performance Computing (HPC) area, in particular as regards the security of distributed and/or parallel executions.