Chronic Pain Management: Practical Tips and Guidelines for Primary Care

Advanced Studies in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-40

  Potter, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CARISOPRODOL; CHLORZOXAZONE; CODEINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; FENAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSAMINE SULFATE; IBUPROFEN; LAXATIVE; METAXALONE; METHOCARBAMOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXICAM DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SALICYLIC ACID; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TIZANIDINE; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG COST; DRUG DEPENDENCE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPNOSIS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER TOXICITY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PEPTIC ULCER; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SOMNOLENCE; SUSTAINED RELEASE PREPARATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1642528428     PISSN: 15303004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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