Painful Disease States

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...

Abstract This volume is part of the “What Do I Do Now” Pain Management series, presenting clinical scenarios related to painful syndromes affecting the upper limb. T...

The post-Cold War order established by the United States of America is currently at a crossroads. No longer is the liberal order and United States hegemonic power a given. Moscow a...

While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United State...

Fabry disease is a rare X-linked lysosomal storage disorder in which deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A leads to accumulation of substrate, mostly globotriaosylceramide, which cau...

Influential guidelines on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management agree on most key recommendations. Early diagnosis of persistent synovitis, and identification of poor prognostic mar...

Coccygodynia, or coccygeal pain, is also known as coccydynia, coccalgia, or coccygalgia. It is a painful syndrome affecting the coccyx (tailbone). It is relatively uncommon, and ma...

Some people feel that life is meaningless because there is so much suffering in the world. The chapter criticizes three arguments by Schopenhauer for the painfulness of life: the a...