New concepts of chronic pain and their implications.
When chronic pain fails to respond to therapy, the approach often have been based on outmoded concepts of the nature of pain. The current unified pain theory takes into account recent biochemical advances and can serve as a basis for more effective diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Various treatment modalities are reviewed in the context of the psychology as well as the physiology of severe intractable pain.
D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D059408:Pain Management; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000700:Analgesics; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs