Chronic pain is a complex multifaceted disease embedded in many aspects of a person’s life. Pain management should not only aim to relieve pain, but also to restore activity and improve quality of life in suffering patients while reducing long-term use of health care services.
These objectives are best met through the combined efforts of an interdisciplinary team of diverse pain specialists coming from the varied fields including addictionology, anesthesia, dentistry, dieticians, family medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, nursing, oncology, pain medicine, pharmacy, physiatry, physiotherapy, psychology, rheumatology, social workers, surgery and other relevant health professionals required to treat the patient.
ESP has a vast array of information, tools and resources available on the website, www.EmergingSolutionsinPain.com. The Interdisciplinary Pearls aims to select specific pieces of content on ESP, differentially interpret them by relevant and highly experienced clinical specialties to ensure ESP content is relevant to an interdisciplinary pain management team. The interpretations will be posted on the ESP website as either audio and/or text files.
Pieces of content which have been interpreted for an interdisciplinary team member will have the following icons associated with that specific section of information, tool or resource. Please select from the following to view interpretations specific to that profession:
Pain Management – for interpretations relevant to pain management specialists/addictionologists, etc.
Primary Care – for interpretations relevant to family medicine physicians interested in pain management
Nursing Practice – for interpretations relevant to pain nurses
Pharmacy Practice – for interpretations relevant to pain pharmacists