Pain management in primary care: current perspectives

Meyer, Helgard Pieter

dc.contributor.author	Meyer, Helgard Pieter
dc.date.accessioned	2007-11-09T08:33:11Z
dc.date.available	2007-11-09T08:33:11Z
dc.date.issued	2007-08
dc.description.abstract	According to a 1998 World Health Organization Survey of 26 000 primary care patients on five continents, 22% reported persistent pain over the past year. Part of the problem lies with some health-care providers who have failed to keep up with the advances in pain medicine and continue to follow the biomedical approach, which regards a specific pathway as the only source of pain. In this model, all pain is regarded as a warning signal of tissue injury, and if conservative treatment fails, some surgical technique will be able to correct the problem. The modern paradigm of pain management has moved from this biomedical to the broader biopsychosocial approach, where pain mechanisms now integrate input from sensory, emotional and cognitive systems.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Meyer, HP 2007, 'Pain management in primary care: current perspectives', South African Family Practice, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 20, 22-25. [http://www.safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj]	en
dc.identifier.issn	1726-426X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/3886
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Medpharm Publishers	en
dc.rights	Medpharm Publishers	en
dc.subject	Pain management	en
dc.subject	Primary care	en
dc.subject	Biopsychosocial approach	en
dc.subject	Chronic	en
dc.subject	Multidisciplinary approach	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Pain -- Treatment -- South Africa	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Pain medicine	en
dc.title	Pain management in primary care: current perspectives	en
dc.type	Article	en