Download or read book Chronic Pain in Small Animal Medicine written by Steven M. Fox and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain is unlike acute pain, it lasts beyond the time necessary for healing and resists normal treatment. No one patient feels pain in the same way and yet in veterinary medicine the patient's gain is generally assessed based on a single standard. This book is written for the veterinary health care professional seeking a greater depth of knowledge in the mechanisms of pain accompanying chronic disease states, and the potential targets for treatment.