Treatment approaches to chronic pain include pharmacological measures, such as analgesics (pain killer drugs), antidepressants, and anticonvulsants interventional procedures, physical therapy, physical exercise, application of ice or heat and psychological measures, such as biofeedback and cognitive behavioral therapy. Finally, the third circumstance is when medical science cannot identify the cause of pain. The second is when pain persists after the injury or pathology has healed. The first is when a painful injury or pathology is resistant to treatment and persists. The task of medicine is to relieve suffering under three circumstances. It treats distressing symptoms such as pain to relieve suffering during treatment, healing, and dying. Medicine treats injuries and diseases to support and speed healing. Rather, it often means achieving adequate quality of life in the presence of pain, through any combination of lessening the pain and/or better understanding it and being able to live happily despite it. Effective pain management does not always mean total eradication of all pain. Effective management of chronic (long-term) pain, however, frequently requires the coordinated efforts of the pain management team. Pain sometimes resolves quickly once the underlying trauma or pathology has healed, and is treated by one practitioner, with drugs such as pain relievers ( analgesics) and occasionally also anxiolytics. The team may also include other mental health specialists and massage therapists. The typical pain management team includes medical practitioners, pharmacists, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, physician assistants, nurses, and dentists. Relief of pain in general (analgesia) is often an acute affair, whereas managing chronic pain requires additional dimensions. Pain management often uses a multidisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of anyone experiencing pain, whether acute pain or chronic pain.
Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of pain, they also call on additional help from a medical specialty devoted to pain, which is called pain medicine. Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain ( pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging.
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