Advantages of Chronic Pain Management
Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is a significant challenge for clinicians and patients, and pain can rarely get eliminated for an extended period. Patients and healthcare providers commonly regard pain as a symptom of an underlying injury or illness. Assume you injured your low back while lifting, and you may have injured a muscle or ligament or suffered a spine injury, such as a disc bulge or herniation. In any case, you now have pain, a symptom of the injury. The same could be for any medical condition that causes pain, especially when it first appears. As a result, patients and clinicians should discuss treatment goals such as pain reduction, function optimization, and quality of life enhancement. Chronic pain management achieves the best results when it addresses co-occurring mental disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) and incorporates appropriate nonpharmacologic and complementary therapies for symptom management. A different approach to pain management Understanding the type and...