Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Understanding The Pain Management Process

By Theresa Alvarez


Chronic pain can eliminate one's quality of life. Handling it can be complicated since stronger painkillers often come with the dangers of rebound soreness and addiction. When treated for pain management Atlanta patients don't always achieve full relief, even from the most powerful methods, but professionals can make the soreness more tolerable in other ways.

Acute and chronic aches can have their roots in terminal illness, injury or chronic disease. The combination of help offered relies on what disease underlies it. A management team consists of all professionals in a multitude of disciplines who tailor treatments towards each individual to control symptoms.

A team might include physiotherapists, cognitive behavioral therapists, psychiatrists, physicians and many varieties of other medical health professionals. Those who are suffering from muscular issues, for example, will gain some relief from physiotherapy that can't be advantaged from through most medications. However, because physiotherapy takes a long time to bring results, a physician would be needed to keep symptoms manageable prior to healing.

Depression and anxiety are often the results of chronic symptoms. It's needless for patients to suffer from these debilitating disorders. Psychiatrists can be involved to prescribe courses of anxiolytics and antidepressants to make the process more tolerable. Sedatives can be helpful in cases where complete relief can't be achieved, and can also reduce the anxiety caused by the soreness itself.

Anticonvulsants can be highly influential at reducing some types of soreness. They dampen nerve activity, and can sometimes treat the root of the symptoms. Most of them have mild sedative properties and can help those struggling with lack of sleep. Most anticonvulsants aren't addictive.

Analgesics will almost always form a part of treatment, although non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are often used to treat mild aches and reduce swelling. Milder analgesics, when combined with opiates, are often more effective than they are separately. Whether the soreness is acute or chronic will determine which analgesics are used.

Acute sufferers can use opiates short term with fewer risks, so they're often prescribed. Those with terminal illness are given powerful opiates as well. However, chronic patients who aren't terminal present a problem in that there are higher risks to long term treatment with opiates, so doctors usually approach their medications differently. They often begin with analgesics with the lowest risks and slowly prescribe stronger opiates when the milder ones haven't given results. Daily use is usually discouraged. When having pain management Atlanta patients can receive great benefits from minute doses of amitriptyline, which restores the body's natural sleep cycle so that the healing fourth stage of sleep is experienced to reduce symptoms.




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