Head, Face, and Neck Pain Science, Evaluation, and Management

Head, Face, and Neck Pain Science, Evaluation, and Management
Author: Noshir Mehta
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118209958

The most comprehensive guide ever created for head, face, and neck (HFN) pain, this multi-author book offers the very latest research and therapeutic information on this important and hugely interdisciplinary topic. A unique professional reference, it is also easy to use as a textbook within diverse educational institutions and programs. Content adheres strictly to the latest established guidelines for pain management in the medical and dental professions.

Nutrition and Integrative Medicine

Nutrition and Integrative Medicine
Author: Aruna Bakhru
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1498759491

While medical professionals continue to practice traditional allopathic medicine, the public has turned toward nutritional and integrative medical therapies, especially for addressing the proliferation of chronic diseases. Written by leaders in the academic and scientific world, Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians presents various modalities to help restore health. This book provides users with a guide to evaluating and recommending nutritional and integrative therapies. The book offers insights on the microbiome of the human body, examines the relationship of human health to the microbiome of the food we ingest, and introduces the concept of "food as information." It provides enlightenment on anti-aging and healing modalities, mind–body medicine, and an investigation of psychological trauma as related to disease causation. Integrative therapies, including water, light, and sound therapy, are explored, and information on healing chronic disease through nutrition, the tooth–body connection, the role of toxins in disease causation, and electromagnetic field hypersensitivity, as well as its management, is presented.

Discussions, on Treatment of TMJ Disorders, Orofacial Pain, & Dysfunction, TMD Secondary Headaches, Dental Sleep Medicine

Discussions, on Treatment of TMJ Disorders, Orofacial Pain, & Dysfunction, TMD Secondary Headaches, Dental Sleep Medicine
Author: Maurice Vahedifar, D.M.D., M.S.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1329215397

Temporomandibular disorders are defined as a subgroup of craniofacial pain problems that involve the TMJ, masticatory muscles, and associated head and neck musculoskeletal structures. pain, limited or asymmetric mandibular motion, and TMJ sounds. The pain or discomfort .is often localized to the jaw, TMJ, and muscles of mastication. Common associated symptoms include ear pain and stuffiness, tinnitus, dizziness, neck pain, and headache. In some cases, the onset is acute and symptoms are mild and self-limiting. In other patients, a chronic temporomandibular disorder develops, with persistent pain and physical, behavioral, psychological, and psychosocial symptoms similar to those of patients with chronic pain syndromes in other areas of the body (e.g., arthritis, low back pain, chronic headache, fibromyalgia, and chronic regional pain.

Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health, An Issue of Dental Clinics

Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health, An Issue of Dental Clinics
Author: Leslie R. Halpern
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-04-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455771686

This issue of Dental Clinics features expert clinical reviews on Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health which includes current information on topics such as strategic planning for prioritizing oral health gender disparities, oral health gender disparities and systemic health, oral health gender disparities and reproductive health, oral cancer in women, risk assessment and management, tooth loss, dietary behaviors and oral health in women, enamel erosion, violence and abuse, temporomandibular joint disorder, gender differences and the aging and diseased jaw, patient-provider interactions, and pathways to assure evidence-based women’s oral health.

The Fearful Dental Patient

The Fearful Dental Patient
Author: Arthur A. Weiner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1119949831

The Fearful Dental Patient: A Guide to Understanding and Managing helps dental professionals understand the basics of fear, anxiety and phobias and the role these emotions play in creating negative behavior within the dental environment. The text contains a variety of modalities that help identify dental fear and phobia, as well as chair-side techniques and practical advice aimed at improving patient cooperation and ensuring treatment compliance. Chapter topics include the basic origins of patient fear and anxiety, how to indentify dental anxiety and varied approaches to managing fearful patients of any age. Approaches discussed employ behavioral, pharmacological, sedation and even hypnotic techniques, specifying combinations where required. Chapters also include coverage of a wide range of patients, including those with psychiatric comorbidities and special healthcare needs. The entire dental team will greatly benefit from the proven methods and practical guidance presented to better understand and treat fearful dental patients.

Merritt’s Neurology

Merritt’s Neurology
Author: Elan D Louis
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 4734
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1975141237

For more than 60 years, Merritt’s Neurology has remained a trusted landmark text in clinical neurology, providing unparalleled guidance on neurologic protocols, treatment guidelines, clinical pathways, therapeutic recommendations, and imaging. The fourteenth edition reflects the state of today’s practice, with fully updated content and timely new sections and chapters. With this edition, Dr. James Noble joins Drs. Elan Louis and Stephan A. Mayer as co-editor, all of whom trained at Columbia University where Dr. H. Houston Merritt wrote the initial editions of this book. Lauded for its comprehensive coverage, colorful and dynamic visual style, readability, and ease of use, this up-to-date reference is ideal for neurologists, primary care physicians, and residents alike.

INTERNATIONAL UCLA FACIALPAIN DISCUSSIONS 2006-2010

INTERNATIONAL UCLA FACIALPAIN DISCUSSIONS 2006-2010
Author: Maurice . Vahedifar, D.M.D., M.S.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2011-03-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1435790707

This book would be great value for benefit to those interested in matters of the current FACIALPAIN subject's listservers, and has followed the listserve postings for several years and felt that there would be great value to those interested in matters orofacial to have an organized and searchable collection of the communications arranged by topic or subject. As you go through this book, you will appreciate the tremendous effort tirelessly to bring all of the posting to the FACIALPAIN listserve into a book format, that he has been put forth for our benefit, this book represents posting on a variety of subjects and contains much controversy that we in OFP are still struggling with. Nevertheless, the book's value is in the organization of the material that can be searched by subject matter. It should be understood that the diagnoses and treatments are only suggestions and do not represent standards of care but help us to move toward those standards.

Sensorimotor Control

Sensorimotor Control
Author: Reinhard Dengler
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781586030810

Despite the intensive experimental and theoretical studies for over a century, the general processes involved in neural control of pasture and movement, in learning of motor behaviour in healthy subjects and in adaptation in pathology were and remain a challenging problems for the scientists in the field of sensorimotor control. The book is the outcome of the Advanced Research Workshop Sensorimotor Control, where the focus was on the state and the perspectives of the study in the field.

Handbook of Headache Management

Handbook of Headache Management
Author: Joel R. Saper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781720489

Now in its updated Second Edition, this handbook provides the key information necessary to diagnose and treat headache. The information is presented in a practical and highly accessible manner. This edition incorporates the past few years' major advances in both diagnosis and treatment of headache. New chapters cover stratification of headache care and outcomes; serotonin syndrome; and borderline personality disorder. Also new to this edition is a chapter on what to do and when to refer in intractable cases.