Pain Management

Pain management is a multidisciplinary approach of medicine intended to improve the quality of life for the patient who other than as supposed or expected is fixed by sufferings caused by pain. The analysis of pain and it is origin is critical in the entire course of pain management. The special line of work of pain is mainly comprised of a team from respective subsections of medicine such as Physicians, anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurses.

The typical approach followed in pain management would be as follows.

Diagnosis of pain – identifying the reason for pain is the original step towards relieving the pain for the patient. Once the underlying pathology is treated then the pain is relieved for the patient. This procedure of identifying the underlying pathology may be achieved by the following usual method

Patient interview

Pain history details such as development and timing, intensity, character, affiliated symptoms, aggravating and relieving factors, former treatment etc.

Medical history details such as Review of systems, past medical history, past surgical history will provide the clinician with worthful inputs which may directly or indirectly be affiliated to the present condition of the patient.

It also provides the selective information on present condition which is either sequel to the chronic condition present in the past or not.

Drug history is as essential as any other because it gives the info of what drugs the patient has taken to support the pain and what effect those drugs had in relieving the pain.

Social history factor such as personal history, family history and occupational history will give the clinician an indication in regards to the patient life style, psychological factors, habits, genetic profile etc, which might directly or indirectly have an significance on the present condition

Patient examination

Physical examination in general follows the history recording. This is the step in which the clinician identifies the signs of the diseases, the clinician correlates the sensations or changes given by the patient while he does the physical examination. The clinician will do elaborated physical examination of the entire body to comprehend and evaluate the affect leading to the present condition of the patient, as well as to valuate the risk elements for any procedures being considered for pain management.

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