Chronic Pain

CONTEXT

The lived experience of chronic pain: Evidence of people's voices

History and Definition of Chronic Pain

The Descriptive Epidemiology of Chronic Pain

The Economics of Chronic Pain

Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Chronic Pain

The Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain

TREATMENT

Why Pain Becomes Chronic

What Chronic Pain Looks Like to Clinicians

Drug Treatments for Chronic Pain

Non-Drug Treatments for Chronic Pain

Interventional Treatments for Chronic Pain

Multidisciplinary Pain Clinics

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches to Chronic Pain

Self-Management for Chronic Pain

SPECIAL CHALLENGES IN CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

Chronic Pain in Persons with Mental Health Issues

Chronic Pain in Injured Workers

Chronic Pain and Addictions

Chronic Pain in Children

Chronic Pain in Elderly Persons

Chronic Pain in Indigenous Populations

HEALTH SYSTEMS AND CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

Mass Media Campaigns for the Prevention of Back Pain Related Disability

Improving for Pain Management Education

The Alberta Chronic Pain Ambassador Program

Organizing Health Systems for Successful Pain Management

Chronic Pain Management: The Quebec Experience

Paul Taenzer is the co-founder of the Calgary Health Region Chronic Pain Centre and presently leads their evaluation team. He is the co-principal investigator of the Alberta HTA Chronic Pain Ambassador Project and serves as the treasurer of the Canadian Pain Society. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from McGill University and has worked as a clinician and research in Calgary for most of his career.Saifudin Rashiq is an academic anesthesiologist, and director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the University of Alberta Hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta. He obtained his medical degree from University of Nottingham, UK and was a Fellow in Pain Medicine at the University of Washington's Multidisciplinary Pain Centre in Seattle His research interests include the use of opioid analgesics in chronic non-cancer pain, functional and quality of life measurements in chronic pain states and the epidemiology of chronic pain.Donald Schopflocher trained initially as a research Psychologist, and worked from 1995 as a biostatistician in the Alberta government Health and Wellness Ministry. There he managed health survey data analysis and analyzed large administrative datasets for Health Surveillance purposes. He is now associate professor in the Faculty of Nursing School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, and a Fellow of the Institute of Health Economics.Dr. Jonsson is director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and professor at the University of Alberta, Public Health Sciences. For 20 years he was a professor of Health Economics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Jonsson was also director of the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), worked for WHO Euro, was a Health Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Health in Hanoi, Vietnam. His main field of research has been in health economics: cost-effectiveness analysis, and health technology assessment. Jonsson has co-edited 2 well-selling Wiley-VCH titles during his