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You don't have to live with your pain. Learn more about the classifications of acute and chronic pain while discovering options for effective pain management.

Learn More About Pain Management

Need to know more about how pain will affect you or someone you care for? Learn all the basics here:

     » Introduction to Pain Management
     » Types of Pain
     » Pain Treatment Goals
     » Treatments for Pain
     » Special Concerns of Opioids

Features on Pain

Talking About Pain--So Your Doctor Understands

How do you talk about pain to your medical team?

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Latest Pain Research

Pain in the Neck: Biochemical Indicators May Signal Myofascial Trigger Points

Findings from a recent study suggest that the chronic pain condition known as myofascial pain syndrome...

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Pain Community and Resources

Dealing with chronic pain from a mental/emotional perspective

posted by shellGVchick

Tue, Jan 29 2008 3:05 PM

Special Concerns of Opioids

Conclusion

by Steven M. Benecke, MD

By identifying the cause of the pain, a patient-specific treatment plan may be created to enhance function and restore one’s attitude to see beauty and happiness. Most pain can be made tolerable, life can be enhanced, and function restored. The only thing the professionals cannot provide is motivation or desire.

With the help of medical practitioners, people with pain can endure, persevere, and progress. Pain can be managed and life improved. The future of pain medicine is bright with a better scientific understanding of pain and its causes and revolutionary therapies just now beginning to be investigated.

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