Pain Management: Who's Interested?

For individuals who appreciate pain, it is so abominable that you may not wish anyone including foes to suffer from it. It is a dreadful awareness which infringes on a patient's temper and spirit. Pain is so clear that its unrelenting presence can send an individual to the hospital's receiving room for immediate relief. Upon the setting of pain, the only aim is relief no matter what the issue is regarding its availment and pain management is the sole way without any tinge of other thoughts.


The necessity for pain management has developed into a specialized area of medicine called Algiatry. Algiatry looks into every aspect of the patient’s case and pools psychologists, doctors, therapists, etc., to address the many facets of pain that afflict the patient..Its objective it the uplift the status of life of those in horrible and persistent pain carried by ailments that are terminal or with impossible cure. Although it may be the basic approach to address the root of pain, there are times that it is not possible so that pain management is turning to be the answer to assist the patient and their families who suffer the same level of experience every day.


From the medical perspective, it may be said that the nature of pain determines the kind of treatment or medication it would require. Pain management may start from basic medical prescription of analgesics like paracetamol, mefenamic acid or ibuprofen to the prescription of morphine which is a highly addictive item. It may even reach the complex extent of tapping the coordinated effort of a pain management team involving skilled practitioners of various expertise or the use of alternative methods to manage pain.


Alternative treatments have already taken an important niche in pain management such as acupuncture, chiropractic therapy, relaxation techniques as those employed in Reiki and Yoga, massage and use of herbal medicines. Even the boundaries of medical and scientific explorations has been done and the fields of conventional and traditional practices were intruded. For those in distress, even the substitute approaches and use of trial cures are appreciated with high expectations just to negate pain. Can we judge them? Can we bar them from anticipating? What is to stop man from trying to minimize if not totally eradicate pain? Anything that offers hope is welcome.

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