Here is the perfect text you need to provide your learners with real-life clinical scenarios that are ideal for Case-Based Learning and Discussion.
Key Features
- Presents real-world patients in a real-world clinical setting, making learning fun and engaging.
- The Case-Based Learning approach focuses learners and clinicians on the key elements for each diagnosis and helps develop a deep understanding of how to diagnose and treat each condition.
- Covers everyday clinical problems such as arthritis pain at the wrist and at the at the carpometacarpal joints, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger thumb and trigger finger, Dupuytren’s contracture, and more.
- Cases unfold just the way they do in your clinic. Each case is accompanied with thoughtful clinical commentary and key messages from the author.
- Each chapter uses high-quality radiographic images, clinical photos, and full-color drawings to facilitate a clear, easy-to-understand approach to evaluation and diagnosis.
- An ideal self-assessment and review tool for pain medicine practitioners and trainees, as well as those preparing for the American Board of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine certification and recertification exam.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Author Information
By Steven D. Waldman, MD, JD, Senior Vice Provost and Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Kansas City University, Kansas City, MO
Transmittal Materials
1 Harry Boyden: A 58-year-old Male with Right Wrist Pain
1 Acute Herpes Zoster of the First Division of the Trigeminal Nerve
2 John Walker: A 30-year-old Male with Pain, Numbness, Weakness, and Paresthesias, Radiating into the Lateral Forearm, Ring, and Little Finger
2 Migraine Headache
3 Chase Armstrong: A 32-year-old Male with Pain and Electric Shock-like Sensation Radiating into the Lateral Forearm, Ring, and Little Finger
3 Tension-Type Headache
4 Warren Billiter: A 46-year-old Male with Severe Wrist Pain Associated with Ulnar Deviation of his Wrist
4 Cluster Headache
5 Stephon Dawson: A 26-year-old Male with Severe Dorsal Wrist Pain Associated with Flexion and Extension of his Wrist
5 Sexual Headache
6 Victor Flores: A 36-year-old Male with Pain and Paresthesias Radiating into the Base of the Thumb
6 Analgesic Rebound Headache
7 Mary Claire Bilman: A 68-year-old Female with Right Wrist Pain
7 Post-Dural Puncture Headache
8 Jessie Bumgartner: A 64-year-old Homemaker with Left Wrist Pain and Swelling
8 Occipital Neuralgia
9 Bobby Marcelo: A 48-year-old Male with a Painful Bump on the Back of his Wrist
9 Pseudotumor Cerebri
10 Karen Carpenter: A 19-year-old Female with Persistent Wrist Pain after Being Thrown from a Horse
10 Intracranial Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
11 Marco Arco: A 22-year-old Male with Severe Right Wrist Pain
11 Temporal Arteritis
12 Birger Jakobsen: A 64-year-old Male with a Deformity of the Left Hand
12 Intracranial Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
13 Jimmie "Guitar" Watson: A 27-year-old Male with a Finger that Locks up When He Plays Guitar
13 Trigeminal Neuralgia
14 Chloe Goodheart: A 22-year-old Female with Electric Shock-like Pain and Numbness in the Fingers of Her Right Hand
14 Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
15 Vinnie Dang: A 23-year-old Bartender with Severe Subungual Pain with Exposure to Cold
15 Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
