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What is Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is defined as persistent and long-term pain, usually lasting longer than three months. This type of pain can be influenced not only by physical but also by psychological and social factors. The difficulties that modern medicine has in managing chronic pain are often due to the fact that it is unable to fully address the complex needs of patients. Chronic pain can develop from many different causes, and each patient's situation is unique, so individualized treatment plans are essential.
- Pain felt in a different and wider area than the initial state
- Complaints such as burning, numbness, tingling, and chills are added to the pain.
- The tissues in the area where the pain begins respond with a feeling of pain to stimuli such as touch that do not cause pain.
- Decreased sleep quality
- Demoralization and gradual decrease in the patient's belief that he/she will recover
- Decreasing professional efficiency
- Restriction of social life
- Decreased quality of life
- Sweating, constipation, palpitations and blood pressure fluctuations
Why Chronic Pain Doesn't Get Better
Some common characteristics of patients with chronic pain have made their treatment impossible:
- Excessive number of doctor visits
- Lack of consensus and diagnosis among doctors who see the patient
- Excessive number of tests have been performed and they have not been able to reveal a definitive diagnosis.
- An excessive number of treatments have been applied and they have not relieved the pain
- Decreased patient trust in the healthcare system and physicians
- The patient's belief in recovery has decreased greatly
What Causes Chronic Pain?
- A decrease in the pain threshold in the nerves in the area where the pain begins
- These nerves also stimulate neighboring nerves in the spinal cord to which they transmit pain.
- A much larger portion of the pain felt in the spinal cord is transmitted to the brain than normal.
- The limbic system (primitive brain) in the brain is stimulated, causing sweating, constipation, palpitations, and blood pressure fluctuations.
- The upper part of the brain (cortex) is stimulated, creating thoughts of pain, disability and inability to heal.
Chronic Pain Management
Chronic pain treatment requires a knowledgeable and experienced team. Treatment of chronic pain begins with the knowledge of this. It is necessary to start by saving the patient from unnecessary examinations and treatment attempts. After the correct diagnosis and evidence-based treatment are applied, the patient must be convinced that he/she will recover.
Physical therapy agents, manual techniques, exercise, medications proven to be effective in chronic pain, and gradual return to an active life along with treatment of the person's pain are the tools we use in the treatment process.
