Overview
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Siegfried Mense
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Centrum für Biomedizin und, Medizintechnik Mannheim (CBTM), Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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Robert D. Gerwin
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Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda, USA
As one half of a comprehensive two-volume publication that covers every angle of muscle pain and is edited by two of the leading figures in the field, this volume details the basic mechanisms of chronic muscle pain syndromes.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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- Siegfried Mense, Robert D. Gerwin
Pages 1-15
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- Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Siegfried Mense
Pages 177-205
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- S. Mense, Alfonse T. Masi
Pages 207-249
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- Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Pages 251-268
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Back Matter
Pages 269-317
About this book
This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions. The volumes cover a very important topic in pain medicine, since muscle pain is very common and can often be dif?cult to diagnose and treat effectively. Furthermore, chronic pain involving muscle and other components of the musculoskeletal system increases with age, such that it is a common complaint of those of us who are middle-aged or older. Indeed, as changing population demographics in “west- nized” countries result in higher proportions of the population living longer and being middle-aged and elderly, chronic muscle pain will likely become even more of a health problem. In the case of acute muscle pain, this can often be very intense, and in the short term can limit or modify the use of components of the musculoskeletal system associated with the sensitive muscle. Chronic muscle pain can also be intense, as well as unpleasant and disabling, and it is in many cases the over-riding symptom of most musculoskeletal disorders that are associated with long-term deleterious changes in musculoskeletal function.
Editors and Affiliations
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Centrum für Biomedizin und, Medizintechnik Mannheim (CBTM), Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
Siegfried Mense
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Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda, USA
Robert D. Gerwin
