Description
📘 Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist (3rd Edition, Elsevier, 2025)
🧠 Overview
A core pain-science + rehab management textbook for physical therapists, built around pain neurobiology and the evidence behind non-pharmacologic / rehabilitation-based treatments. It’s positioned as a practical framework for understanding why pain happens and how PT interventions work across different pain syndromes.
⭐ Key Features
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🧬 Pain mechanisms explained clearly: updated coverage of modern pain neurobiology and models.
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🏋️ Mechanisms of action of PT treatments: reviews evidence for how interventions work (and when they don’t), tied to clinical effectiveness.
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🌍 Multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach with a large contributor team and clinical framing for real patients.
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🆕 New/expanded topics in this edition include areas like chronic pain predictors, psychological interventions, and pain in special populations (edition-dependent listings across Elsevier storefronts).
✅ Key Benefits
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🎯 Helps PTs move from “treat the symptom” → “treat the mechanism” using a structured framework.
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🧠 Strong for clinicians who want a science-backed rationale for education, exercise, manual therapy, and other conservative modalities.
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🧩 Useful for building consistent decision-making across acute, persistent, and complex pain cases.
👥 Ideal For
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🧑⚕️ Physical therapists (students → advanced clinicians)
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🎓 PT educators and curriculum use
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🧠 Rehab clinicians working with persistent/chronic pain populations
🏷️ Categories (from your list)
Best fit:
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Physical Therapists
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Pain management
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Pain Medicine
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Medical Education
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Physiology
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