Interventions in chronic pain management. 1. Pain concepts, assessment, and medicolegal issues.
This self-directed learning module highlights the concepts of pain and suffering, and chronic pain management from basic science and medicolegal perspectives. It is part of the study guide on chronic pain management in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in physical medicine and rehabilitation. This article specifically focuses on explaining the concepts of pain and suffering as an expert witness, the causes and mechanisms of pain, and qualifying as an expert witness. The article also discusses chronic pain management


OBJECTIVE
To summarize the concepts of pain and suffering in a medicolegal context.
Lacerte
Michel
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont, Canada. mlacerte@.uwo.ca
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Rinoo V
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement