The role of the pain therapist in the approach to chronic headache.
Chronic daily headache (CDH) represents, for the anesthesiologists, a big match in the management of a pain which is simultaneously central and periferic, of a pain wich is psychical and disabiliting. This is a pain conducting the patient to overuse analgesic medicaments even making worse "allodynia" and the organic integrity. That's why a multidisciplinary approach to this kind of chronic benign pathology permits to improve prognosis and quality of life.
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Pain Therapy Unit, Anesthesia and Reanimation Service, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, 7 Via C. Salutati, I-20146 Milan, Italy.
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D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010819:Physician's Role
D000700:Analgesics