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Pain Conditions of the Head and Face

A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management

  • 1st Edition - October 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

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Description

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 conditions using new methods and therapies. The book contains practical information, reviewing epidemiology, presenting key features, contributing mechanisms, and including treatment algorithms for common pain conditions of the head and face. Focus is given to aspects of disease that are novel and evolving, and all conditions are discussed within the framework of the latest advances in research and patient care.

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Primary care physicians, pain specialists, researchers

Table of contents

1. Overview of neuroanatomy and physiology

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Anat Galor

Anat Galor is a staff physician at the Miami VAMC and a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami. Dr. Galor received an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and a medical doctorate degree at Washington University School of Medicine in 2002. She pursued residency training in ophthalmology at the Cleveland Cole Eye Institute (2006) followed by fellowship training in uveitis at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2007) and fellowship training in cornea, external disease, and refractive surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (2008). Dr. Galor is the author of numerous publications that focus on dry eye, ocular surface tumors, and cornea. Dr. Galor's research has focused on understanding mechanisms of pain in dry eye, with an emphasis on studying new diagnostic and treatment modalities.
Affiliations and expertise
Staff Physician, Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

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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)

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA