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.
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
