| Abstract: |
[argue that although] the diversity of patients with chronic pain has profound implications for management, it is nonetheless true that many of the skills required to treat such patients cross specific disease entities / for most patients, the clinical approach requires a comprehensive assessment and a critical review of a multimodal treatment strategy that targets both comfort and function / the nature of these general skills is emphasized and reference is made to an abundant medical literature that variably focuses on pains associated with particular diseases (e.g., cancer), sites (e.g., headache or low back pain), or inciting events (e.g., surgery) definition and classification of pain [nociception and pain, suffering, definition of chronic pain, categories of patients with pain] / principles of pain assessment [temporal features, topographic features, etiologic features, syndromic features, pathophysiologic features] / management of chronic pain [pharmacological, anesthetic, neurostimulatory, physiatric, neurosurgical, psychological approaches] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |
