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Pain Management[edit | edit source]
What is Pain Management?[edit | edit source]
Pain management is an area of modern medicine which utilises the multi-disciplinary team to help ease the pain and suffering of patients living with long-term pain to improve their quality of life[1]. Medicine is usually the first port of call to manage pain, however, when pain in not responsive to medication, or resistant to treatment, or persists after healing has occurred and an exact cause of the pain has not been found alternative treatment or a combined approach can be used[2].
The alternative to medicine or combined approaches to pain management are broad and each of which can be based upon different paradigms of understanding pain. The different approaches come from the wide range of healthcare professionals unique treatments towards pain management, not only limited to Mental-Health or Psychiatrists but can include Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Practitioners, Medics, Nuse Specialists and Massage Therapists.
Different Types of Management/Treatment[edit | edit source]
The techniques these professionals use can be and not limited to: (This list is not exhaustive and please add more!)
- Patient Education
- Operant Conditioning Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Distraction
- Classical Conditioning Approaches
- Social Support Methods
- Relaxation Methods
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Hypnosis
- Biofeedback
What is the Psychological Approach to Pain Management[edit | edit source]
As well as the neural interactions and links the brain goes through when a person is in pain, there are multiple layers of complex abstract thoughts and feelings a person goes through which culminates how much pain a person feels and how they deal with pain. Their cognitive constructs, behavioural constructs and environmental influences are all intertwined in a complex web of individuality which need to be considered and incorporated into any treatments for them to be effective and are found out during an initial assessment[3]. It is these personal, individual and holistic areas which make it a pscyhological approach sitting within the biopsychosocial model of patient treatment.
The Difference Between Acute and Chronic Pain[edit | edit source]
Previously pain used to fit into the biomedical model with a reductionist view (i.e Pain was derived from a specific physical pathology) and catagorically dismissed social, psychological and behavioural mechanisms as irrelevent and of no importance to understanding pain[3].
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Hardy, Paul A. J. (1997). Chronic pain management: the essentials. U.K.: Greenwich Medical Media
- ↑ Butler DS, Moseley GL. Explain pain. Adelaide: Noigroup Publications; 2003
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Asmundson,G. Gomez-Perez,L. Richter, A. Carleton, RN. The psychology of pain: models and targetsfckLRfor comprehensive assessment. Chapter 4 in Hubert van Griensven’s Pain: A text book for health care professionals. Elsevier, 2014.
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- ↑ Hardy, Paul A. J. (1997). Chronic pain management: the essentials. U.K.: Greenwich Medical Media
- ↑ Butler DS, Moseley GL. Explain pain. Adelaide: Noigroup Publications; 2003
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Asmundson,G. Gomez-Perez,L. Richter, A. Carleton, RN. The psychology of pain: models and targetsfckLRfor comprehensive assessment. Chapter 4 in Hubert van Griensven’s Pain: A text book for health care professionals. Elsevier, 2014.
