About Chronic Pain
Chronic pain may be generally described as any persisting pain that occurs beyond the usual course of a disease or beyond the reasonable time for an injury to heal.Chronic pain negatively impacts all aspects of an individual's life, including emotional, vocational, financial and social elements. The entire family is dramatically affected by the chronic pain of any family member.
The Necessity for Early Evaluation of the Chronic Pain PatientTypical Chronic Pain Conditions
- Spinal pain
- Headache
- Cancer pain
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia and Fibromyostitis
- Post-laminectomy pain
- Sympathetically mediated pain
- Stump and phantom limb pain
- Raynaud's disease
- Shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Diabetic neuropathy
- TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder)
- CPS (Chronic Pain Syndrome)
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Statement on Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain