What a pain! Managing it through the continuum

Medicine Today

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 51-60

  Goucke, Roger ^a   Schutze, Mark ^a  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CELECOXIB; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIET; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EXERCISE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART PALPITATION; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MORBIDITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SELF CARE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; SWEATING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; URINE RETENTION; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 68249131955     PISSN: 1443430X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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