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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. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of ...
Nociplastic pain aka central sensitisation is the consensus semantic term used by medical researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, due to inflammation and tissue damage, and neuropathic pain, due to nerve damage. [5] It may occur in combination with the other types of pain or in ...
Alternative medicine. Rolfing ( / ˈrɔːlfɪŋ, ˈrɒl -/) [1] is a form of alternative medicine originally developed by Ida Rolf (1896–1979) as Structural Integration. [2] [3] Rolfing is marketed with unproven claims of various health benefits. [4] [5] It is based on Rolf's ideas about how the human body's "energy field" can benefit when ...
Medication therapy management. Medication therapy management, generally called medicine use review in the United Kingdom, is a service provided typically by pharmacists, medical affairs, and RWE scientists that aims to improve outcomes by helping people to better understand their health conditions and the medications used to manage them. [1]
Analgesic adjuvant. An analgesic adjuvant is a medication that is typically used for indications other than pain control but provides control of pain ( analgesia) in some painful diseases. This is often part of multimodal analgesia, where one of the intentions is to minimize the need for opioids. [1] [2] [3]
Pain disorder. Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress. The pain is often so severe that it disables the patient from proper functioning. Duration may be as short as a few days or as long as many years. The disorder may begin at any age, and occurs more ...
Electroanalgesia is a form of analgesia, or pain relief, that uses electricity to ease pain. Electrical devices can be internal or external, at the site of pain (local) or delocalized throughout the whole body. It works by interfering with the electric currents of pain signals, inhibiting them from reaching the brain and inducing a response ...
Pain assessment. Pain is often regarded as the fifth vital sign in regard to healthcare because it is accepted now in healthcare that pain, like other vital signs, is an objective sensation rather than subjective. As a result nurses are trained and expected to assess pain .