Pain Relief: From Analgesics To Alternative Therapies Ed. By Cecilia Maldonado
by Cecilia Maldonado /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book comprises many aspects of pain treatment and the drugs involved in it. From old analgesics with new mechanisms of action for pain alleviation to analgesics potential for diminishing oxidative stress; from pharmacological therapies to electrical ones, going through alternative medicine; and from pain treatment in dentistry to chronic pain therapies, also boarding the treatment of migraine, different experts share their knowledge on the topic.
Since the beginning of times, pain treatment has been the motive of research giving birth to multiple groups of pharmacological families and therapies. Pain perception is a construction built over the biological phenomenon of signal transduction surrounded by different factors such as gender, age, and sociocultural status, among others. The concept of pain as the solely biological manifestation of defense is nowadays considered as a narrow-minded view of this topic. In this regard concepts such as newborns feel no pain or older people complain about everything therefore should not be paid attention when referring pain, are being left behind in the understanding that pain alleviation is a human right and everybody feeling pain should be helped for its relief.
Preface
1 Introductory Chapter: Pain Relief - From Analgesics to Alternative Therapies
2 Advance Delivery System Dosage Form for Analgesic, Their Rationale, and Specialty
3 Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain
4 Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) in Acute Pain: Pharmacological and Clinical Aspects
5 A Review of Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion Therapy for Paediatric Acute and Chronic Pain Management
6 Analgesics Use in Dentistry
7 Headache of Analgesic Abuse as a Cause of New Pain Pathways Development
8 Pharmacovigilance of the Analgesic Therapy
9 Pharmacologic Management of Low Back Pain
10 Paracetamol: Update on its Analgesic Mechanism of Action
11 Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Antagonists: Potential Analgesics for Jejunal Pains
12 Interaction of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) with Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS): Possible Biomedical Implications
13 Effect of Nonpharmacological Therapies on Pain and Health Perception in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
14 Natural Products as a Source for Novel Analgesic Compounds
15 Sweet Solution Analgesia
16 Analgesics: New Target and Sources
17 Analgesic Potential of Extracts and Derived Natural Products from Medicinal Plants
