Pain Treatment WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Pain Treatment
Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals experience pain by various daily hurts and aches, and occasionally through more serious injuries or illnesses.1
Medical management of pain has given rise to a distinction between acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is 'normal' pain, it is felt when hurting a toe, breaking a bone, having a toothache, or walking after an extensive surgical operation. Chronic pain is a 'pain illness', it is felt day after day, month after month, and seems impossible to heal. Pain Management...read more on Wikipedia
Fast Facts:
- There are a lot of different ways to treat pain such as drug therapy, trigger point injections, surgical implants, TENS units, bioelectric therapy, physical therapy, exercise and herbal remedies.2
- The role of pain management is to identify the source of the problem and isolate it for optimal treatment.3
- Special attention should be given to infants and children experiencing pain because they are not able to describe the type, degree and location of pain.4
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Wikipedia: Pain
- ↑ WebMD: Pain Management: Treatment Overview
- ↑ MedicineNet.com: Pain Management
- ↑ National Institutes of Health: Pain Management
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- Contributor: Madeleine Paladar
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
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- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Madeleine Paladar
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: PAIN TREATMENTS
- Last update: Jun. 4, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
