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The Wrist and Hand

Pain Medicine: A Case-Based Learning Series

  • 1st Edition - January 4, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Steven D. Waldman
  • Language: English

Here is the perfect text you need to provide your learners with real-life clinical scenarios that are ideal for Case-Based Learning and… Read more

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Description

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.

Readership

Pain Medicine practitioners and trainees (anesthesiologists, neurologists, physical medicine and rehab, orthopods, rheumatologists, primary care etc.)

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 4, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Steven D. Waldman

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Vice Provost and Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Kansas City University, Kansas City, MO, USA