title: [Physicomedical therapy of acute and chronic pain].
abstract: For almost all pain syndromes, whether caused by tumours or not, physicomedical therapies are used as primary or accompanying measures to treat chronic and acute pain. The selection of suitable treatments is, however, often challenging, as there are clear discrepancies between the results of controlled studies on the one hand and the positive results based on individual observations on the other. This article presents an overview of those methods, therapeutic agents, and techniques within the broad range of physicomedical treatments that show a pain-modulating effect and have proven their efficiency for treating acute and chronic pain.
authors.affiliation: Städt. Klinikum München GmbH, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München, Sanatoriumsplatz 2, 81545 , München, Deutschland. p.schoeps@khmh.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schöps
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seeger
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D026201:Musculoskeletal Manipulations; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D016896:Treatment Outcome