Pain Management
Pain management,
pain medicine,
pain control or Algiatry is a branch of
medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the
quality of life of those living with chronic pain. The typical
pain management team includes medical practitioners, pharmacists, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, physician assistants, nurses, dentists. The team can also include other psychological state specialists and
massage therapists.
Pain sometimes resolves promptly once the underlying
trauma or
pathology has healed, and is treated by one practitioner, with
drugs like analgesics and (occasionally) anxiolytics. Effective
management of chronic (long-term) pain, however, frequently requires the coordinated efforts of the
pain management team. effective
pain management doesn't mean total eradication of all pain.
Medicine treats injuries and diseases to support and speed healing. It treats distressing symptoms like
pain to alleviate suffering during treatment, healing, and dying. The task of
drugs is to alleviate suffering under three circumstances. The first being when a painful injury or
pathology is immune to treatment and persists. The second is when
pain persists after the injury or
pathology has healed. Finally the third circumstance is when life science cannot identify the explanation for pain. Treatment approaches to
chronic pain include pharmacological measures, like analgesics, antidepressants and anticonvulsants, interventional procedures,
physiotherapy , workout , application of ice or heat, and psychological measures, such as biofeedback and cognitive behavioural therapy.
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