A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions

• Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
  
• Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
  
• Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
  
• Written by the world''s leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain