Chronic pain. A pharmacologic review and behavior modification approach.
Management of pain syndromes clearly requires a multidimensional approach and involves social, psychologic, and somatic factors. At the Behavioral Medicine/Pain Therapy Center of Jewish Hospital, St Louis, most patients significantly increase social and physical activity using the combined approach outlined. A majority of patients previously treated with complicated drug regimens do well on little or no medicine. When medications are required for long-term treatment, tricyclic antidepressants have been most successful.
D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D059408:Pain Management; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000700:Analgesics; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000927:Anticonvulsants; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs