Pain is a sensory and often emotional experience as a result of damage to a part or parts of the body. The experience of pain differs from one person to the next and a low tolerance to pain does not make you a week person compared to someone with who feels less pain. The science of pain relief is called pain management and an area of medicine that is growing in importance especially with the number of complaints that leave a person in continual distress.
Medication can provide some pain relief provide it is prescribed by medical staff but there are an increasing number of occasions where normal methods do not work or are of little use. With acute pain for example which is usually the result of some trauma is relatively easy to control once the cause has been dealt with. Diagnosing and treating chronic pain becomes more problematical as the underlying cause may not be apparent as with cases in which there is nerve damage, pain in a site that is unrelated to the injury location or with many types of cancer.
In these situations the pain may be considered to be a symptom of the disease or condition that is being treated and will be looked at as a separate item. Owing to the nature of pain relief, it has been necessary to bring together professionals from different medical areas to work together for a broader approach.
This method of pain relief also includes psychological techniques for biofeedback, cognitive therapy and the use of yoga and meditation for example. Sometimes pain pathways are set up that continue to transmit the sensation of pain even though the underlying condition or injury that originally caused pain has been healed; this pain is usually treated separately for the condition.
There are a large number of distinctly separate medical disciplines that make up this relatively new field of pain management including psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, neurologists and psychiatrists. A number of these come from areas where the use of drugs is used to help provide pain relief. Still others use interventional methods in the pursuit of managing pain.
While this is still a relatively new area of medicine, it is expanding rapidly; the results of which are being watched with anticipation by health care workers everywhere. Pain management is found to be the central focus in the treatment of diseases, like cancer, tumors, serious accidents and long term illnesses. It is the responsibility of nurses, healthcare providers and other pain management practitioners to educate the patients on the management of pain relief in their individual cases. - 15343
Medication can provide some pain relief provide it is prescribed by medical staff but there are an increasing number of occasions where normal methods do not work or are of little use. With acute pain for example which is usually the result of some trauma is relatively easy to control once the cause has been dealt with. Diagnosing and treating chronic pain becomes more problematical as the underlying cause may not be apparent as with cases in which there is nerve damage, pain in a site that is unrelated to the injury location or with many types of cancer.
In these situations the pain may be considered to be a symptom of the disease or condition that is being treated and will be looked at as a separate item. Owing to the nature of pain relief, it has been necessary to bring together professionals from different medical areas to work together for a broader approach.
This method of pain relief also includes psychological techniques for biofeedback, cognitive therapy and the use of yoga and meditation for example. Sometimes pain pathways are set up that continue to transmit the sensation of pain even though the underlying condition or injury that originally caused pain has been healed; this pain is usually treated separately for the condition.
There are a large number of distinctly separate medical disciplines that make up this relatively new field of pain management including psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, neurologists and psychiatrists. A number of these come from areas where the use of drugs is used to help provide pain relief. Still others use interventional methods in the pursuit of managing pain.
While this is still a relatively new area of medicine, it is expanding rapidly; the results of which are being watched with anticipation by health care workers everywhere. Pain management is found to be the central focus in the treatment of diseases, like cancer, tumors, serious accidents and long term illnesses. It is the responsibility of nurses, healthcare providers and other pain management practitioners to educate the patients on the management of pain relief in their individual cases. - 15343
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Having pain all the time is horrible. A fairly recent way of handling pain is pulsed magnetic therapy. The best device for this matter is the mrs 2000
