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Pain refers to a signal in the nervous system that indicates something is wrong. There are two types of pain, namely, acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is short lived and intense, and activates the body's fight response. Chronic pain usually lasts longer than six months and can be either mild or severe. It is associated with complications such as arthritis, cancer, nerve pain, back pain and fibromyalgia. It causes stress in the body, whi...

Pain management is a branch of medicine that is involved in the provision of a better quality of life to individuals with chronic pain by easing their suffering. Pain resolves when the underlying pathology has been treated or the trauma is healed. However, chronic pain requires long-term pain management. Some of the treatment approaches to chronic pain are prescription pain medicine, interventional procedures, physical exercise and therapy, ps...

The field of medicine concerned with the approaches to ease the suffering and to improve the quality of life of those struggling with chronic pain is known as pain management or algiatry. Medical practitioners, physiotherapists, clinical psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, massage therapists and mental health specialists are some of the members of a pain management team. Medications, including analgesics and anxiolytic...