title: Interventions in chronic pain management. 5. Disease-specific issues in chronic pain.
abstract: This self-directed learning module highlights the importance of applying principles described earlier in the Study Guide to specific diseases encountered by practitioners managing chronic pain in order to administer appropriate treatment. This chapter focuses on several challenging and increasingly common maladies and attempts to delineate rationales for holistic, comprehensive care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore diagnostic concepts and therapeutic strategies in fibromyalgia syndrome, central pain, multiple sclerosis, complex regional pain syndrome, and postherpetic neuralgia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA. rashbi01@endeavor.med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: Ira G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Rashbaum
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lacerte
authors.forename: Debra L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Braverman
authors.forename: Jeffery J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ericksen
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D020918:Complex Regional Pain Syndromes / Q000628:therapy*; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000628:therapy*; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D059408:Pain Management; D013788:Thalamus / Q000503:physiopathology