Pain Conditions of the Head and Face
A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Anat Galor, Konstantinos D. Sarantopoulos
- Language: English
Pain Conditions of the Head and Face: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management provides a user-friendly guide on diagnosing and managing common head and facial pain condit… Read more
Doctors seeking to ameliorate their patients’ pain from such maladies as (among many others) neuropathic ocular pain, trigeminal neuralgia, herpetic neuralgia, temporomandibular disorders, burning mouth disorder, and neuropathic ear pain will require no other book to identify their patients’ illnesses and make sure they receive the care they need.
- Reviews epidemiology and presents features of head and facial pain conditions in a logical, comprehensive format
- Discusses previously unknown processes that underlie head and facial pain conditions
- Outlines a treatment algorithm for head and facial pain conditions based on these subtle mechanisms of disease
2. Primary headache disorders
3. Secondary headache disorders
4. Neuropathic ocular pain
5. Trigeminal neuralgia
6. Herpetic neuralgia
7. Temporomandibular disorders
8. Burning mouth disorder and other intraoral pain disorders
9. Neuropathic ear pain
10. Myofascial disorders
11. Post traumatic pain (not including TBI)
12. Pain and psychological health
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Anat Galor
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Konstantinos D. Sarantopoulos
Dr. Konstantinos Sarantopoulos, currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is a clinician-scientist. He has an MD and a PhD degree from the University in Athens, Greece, as well as an MS degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has completed residencies in Anesthesiology in Athens, Greece, and also at the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as a combined clinical and research fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr Sarantopoulos is an interventional pain medicine specialist, with clinical interests in ocular and facial pain, as well as a neuroscientist with basic research interests in electrophysiological properties and signaling of neuronal ion channels in neuropathic pain. He has presented several national and international lectures. His research work has been supported by several grants, including from NIH, and has resulted in numerous publications in peer reviewed journals, abstracts, book chapters and national and international awards.
Dr Sarantopoulos usually attends and participates meetings of the following societies: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American Society of Regional Anesthesia/Pain (ASRA), American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Headache Update Meetings (by DHC Research and Educational Foundation)