Pain Medicine: Board Review Board Review

Edited and written by seasoned authors and physicians in pain medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), this unique review tool is ideal for medical students, PM&R residents, pain fellows, and pain practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the pain medicine exam. Series editors Drs. Blessen C. Eapen and David X. Cifu ensure that Pain Medicine: Board Review offers focused, high-yield content specific to physiatrists who seek subspecialty certification or to improve clinical care and assessment in practice, with authoritative, up-to-date coverage of pain assessment and psychology; methods of treatment; tissue pain, visceral pain, headache and facial pain, and nerve damage; pain management in special populations; and more.

• Supports self-assessment and review with approximately 200 board-style questions and explanations.
• Includes questions on patient management, including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science.
• Discusses key topics such as sex and gender issues in pain; opioids, antidepressants and anticonvulsants; interventional pain management; pain in pregnancy and labor; neuropathic pain; pain relief in persons with substance use and addictive disorders: and others.
• Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and psychiatry, and a format that mirrors the board exam outline.
• Contains references to primary literature that support the answers provided.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.