Chronic Pain

A survey reveals more than 90% of Americans underestimate the severity of chronic pain.

MDNG: Pain Management Edition is seeking nominations for the 2010 Pain Innovators of the Year Awards.

Reducing the number of visits a chronic pain patient makes to the emergency department may be accomplished by simply providing 15- to 30-minute consultations.

Chronic pain costs Europe billions of Euros each year and 21% of Europeans with chronic pain are unable to work at all as a result of their chronic pain.

Paul J. Christo, MD provides an overview of the prevalence of pain in older adults while discussing physiological age-associated changes in pain processing.

Rebecca Curtis, ACC, discussed the stages of change associated with transforming helpless patients to empowered survivors.

Rebecca Curtis, ACC, shares her experience as a chronic pain patient in accepting her condition and moving on with life.

Effective chronic pain management requires a structured approach to evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.

Clinicians in all settings can teach their patients to use relaxation, meditation and other techniques to achieve relief from chronic pain conditions.

The most widespread misunderstanding is of the difference between physical dependence and addiction. Many patients, the public and sadly healthcare professionals fear that anyone taking opioid medications on a long-term basis will become addicted.

For as long as I've been a nurse I have been frustrated with the attitude of many of my peers regarding patients with chronic pain. I have never understood why so many nurses feel it so crucial to pass judgment on patients who are in obvious pain.

In an article published in JAMA, researchers surveyed over 3,200 breast cancer survivors who are 2-3 years out from treatment were surveyed to determine how often these women experienced and continued to suffer from pain.

In examining the brains of people with a chronic pain condition known as complex region pain syndrome (CRPS), scientists found that patients’ brains "looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin."

Robert Kravitz, MD, Medical Director, St. Francis Pain Center, Indianapolis IN, psychiatrist and pain expert, discusses chronic pain management.

Designing a New Toll for Chronic Paint Management

Designing a New Toll for Chronic Paint Management

Designing a New Toll for Chronic Paint Management

Designing a New Toll for Chronic Paint Management