Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic background pain. Often called pain flare or transient pain, BTP negatively affects the function and quality of life of the patient and often results in a number of other physical, psychological and social problems. Breakthrough pain is a common occurrence affecting approximately two-thirds of the estimated 50 to 100 million chronic pain sufferers in the US.
Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health
The groundbreaking program for healthy aging through movement and flexibility. In the revolutionary Somatics, Thomas Hanna demonstrates that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time--chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and even high blood ure--need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, a state which Hanna calls sensory-motor awareness.
Chronic knee, hip and back pain is a problem of epidemic proportions leaving millions of sufferers desperate to find relief. But after trying invasive surgery and countless therapies, all claiming to eliminate chronic musculoskeletal pain, why are so many still suffering with indescribable pain?
Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, & Transplantation: A Companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney This expanded and revised companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney delivers a new bench to bedside review of the management of patients with end-stage renal disease. Leaders in the field present expert coverage on the physiologic principles and clinical applications of different methods of renal replacement therapy as well as the most recent guidelines from the National Kidney Foundation regarding dialysis.
