HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
PAIN MANAGEMENT
Pain medicines and pain management are some of the emerging specialities in several Indian hospitals aiming to revitalise and improve the quality of patient’s life by relieving the pain and minimising the sufferings. For various types of pains ranging from acute pains to chronic ones, including neuropathic, nociceptive, and radicular pains, pain management practices are very crucial and mandatory as many a times ignorance, under-reporting and mismanagement can lead to undesired, unbearable circumstances in patient’s life. R B Smarta, Founder and Managing Director, Interlink Marketing Consultancy Pvt. Ltd
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ain is a sensation which we all experience at various stages of our lives to a greater or lesser extent. Pain perception varies from individual to individual. Sometimes, we don’t require any medical support in order to get rid of this sensation and sometimes, when it’s unbearable and uncontrollable, medical interventions are mandatory. Such interventions are composed of
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wide range of techniques, skills and medications in hospitals. And these collaborative efforts are often termed as ‘pain management’, which is a most significant part of medicine. Unlike developed countries, pain management is still an emerging field in India. Many developed countries have specialised, well-structured pain management programmes in their
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hospitals. Several countries have already adopted the drug-free pain management approaches in order to minimise the risk associated with the opioid medications. Pain management drugs can’t be excluded from the regimen but can be partly replaced with such drug-free approaches. Due to increasing drug-free approaches, the pain management
