Epidemiology of Pain: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
People can experience pain as an acute acute, chronic, or intermittent condition, or a combination of the three<ref name="Goldberg 2011">Goldberg DS, McGee SJ. Pain as a global public health priority. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:770.</ref>. Specifically, chronic pain is a complex condition embracing physical, social and psychological factors, consequently leading to disability, loss of independence and poor quality of life (QoL)<ref name="Breivik 2006">Breivik H, Collett B, Ventafridda V, Cohen R, Gallacher D. Survey of chronic pain in Europe: prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment. Eur J Pain. 2006 May;10(4):287–333.</ref>. It seems clear there is the need for Public Health to address pain as a disease itself<ref name="McGee 2011">McGee SJ, Kaylor BD, Emmott H, Christopher MJ. Defining chronic pain ethics. Pain Med. 2011 Sep;12(9):1376–84.</ref><ref name="Tracey 2009">Tracey I, Bushnell MC. How Neuroimaging Studies Have Challenged Us to Rethink: Is&nbsp;Chronic Pain a Disease? The Journal of Pain. 2009 Nov;10(11):1113–20.</ref>, rather than a simple symptom, in order to provide better interventions for the management and the prevention of pain<ref name="Hecke 2013">Hecke O van, Torrance N, Smith BH. Chronic pain epidemiology and its clinical relevance. Br J Anaesth. 2013 Jan 7;111(1):13–8.</ref>. | People can experience pain as an acute acute, chronic, or intermittent condition, or a combination of the three<ref name="Goldberg 2011">Goldberg DS, McGee SJ. Pain as a global public health priority. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:770.</ref>. Specifically, chronic pain is a complex condition embracing physical, social and psychological factors, consequently leading to disability, loss of independence and poor quality of life (QoL)<ref name="Breivik 2006">Breivik H, Collett B, Ventafridda V, Cohen R, Gallacher D. Survey of chronic pain in Europe: prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment. Eur J Pain. 2006 May;10(4):287–333.</ref>. It seems clear there is the need for Public Health to address pain as a disease itself<ref name="McGee 2011">McGee SJ, Kaylor BD, Emmott H, Christopher MJ. Defining chronic pain ethics. Pain Med. 2011 Sep;12(9):1376–84.</ref><ref name="Tracey 2009">Tracey I, Bushnell MC. How Neuroimaging Studies Have Challenged Us to Rethink: Is&nbsp;Chronic Pain a Disease? The Journal of Pain. 2009 Nov;10(11):1113–20.</ref>, rather than a simple symptom, in order to provide better interventions for the management and the prevention of pain<ref name="Hecke 2013">Hecke O van, Torrance N, Smith BH. Chronic pain epidemiology and its clinical relevance. Br J Anaesth. 2013 Jan 7;111(1):13–8.</ref>. | ||
== | == Epidemiology == | ||
<br> | |||
== Sub Heading 3<br> == | == Sub Heading 3<br> == | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 16 April 2016
Welcome to PPA Pain Project. This page is being developed by participants of a project to populate the Pain section of Physiopedia. The project is supervised and co-ordinated by the The Physiotherapy Pain Association.
- Please do not edit unless you are involved in this project, but please come back in the near future to check out new information!!
- If you would like to get involved in this project and earn accreditation for your contributions, please get in touch!
Tips for writing this page:
- Describe current evidence for pain epidemiology, acute and chronic.
- Describe the public health implications of this epidemiological picture including refernce to social, ethical, and economic considerations
Original Editor - Alberto Bertaggia.
Top Contributors - Alberto Bertaggia, 127.0.0.1, Rachael Lowe, Jo Etherton, Kim Jackson, WikiSysop, Amanda Ager, Lauren Lopez and Jess Bell
Introduction[edit | edit source]
As of today, it is difficult to define the epidemiology of pain because of its subjective nature of the symptoms and the lack of consensus for specific diagnoses and conditions, therefore it is hard to talk about evidences for the true incidence of most pain conditions[1].
People can experience pain as an acute acute, chronic, or intermittent condition, or a combination of the three[2]. Specifically, chronic pain is a complex condition embracing physical, social and psychological factors, consequently leading to disability, loss of independence and poor quality of life (QoL)[3]. It seems clear there is the need for Public Health to address pain as a disease itself[4][5], rather than a simple symptom, in order to provide better interventions for the management and the prevention of pain[6].
Epidemiology[edit | edit source]
Sub Heading 3
[edit | edit source]
Add text here...
References
[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Henschke N, Kamper SJ, Maher CG. The epidemiology and economic consequences of pain. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Jan;90(1):139–47.
- ↑ Goldberg DS, McGee SJ. Pain as a global public health priority. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:770.
- ↑ Breivik H, Collett B, Ventafridda V, Cohen R, Gallacher D. Survey of chronic pain in Europe: prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment. Eur J Pain. 2006 May;10(4):287–333.
- ↑ McGee SJ, Kaylor BD, Emmott H, Christopher MJ. Defining chronic pain ethics. Pain Med. 2011 Sep;12(9):1376–84.
- ↑ Tracey I, Bushnell MC. How Neuroimaging Studies Have Challenged Us to Rethink: Is Chronic Pain a Disease? The Journal of Pain. 2009 Nov;10(11):1113–20.
- ↑ Hecke O van, Torrance N, Smith BH. Chronic pain epidemiology and its clinical relevance. Br J Anaesth. 2013 Jan 7;111(1):13–8.
