The importance of incorporating faith and spirituality issues in the care of patients with chronic daily headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Banks, James W ^a  

^a Headache Care Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FAMILY LIFE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WELLBEING; WORK CAPACITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 33645093188     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-006-0008-0     Document Type: Review

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