Multidisciplinary pain management
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2017-04-28 |
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage". During the past decade, there has been an explosion of research on chronic pain, with significant advances in understanding its etiology, assessment, and treatment. The biopsychosocial model has proved to be the most widely accepted and most heuristic perspective to the understanding and treatment of chronic pain. Most critical is the understanding that chronic pain is a disease of the person, and that a traditional biomedical approach cannot adequately address all of the pain related problems of chronic pain patient population. [...].