Issue 1 – 29 March 2007
Latest issue of the P.A.I.N. Feuilleton
"Pain and Suffering as Mirrored in Art"
It was only from the beginning of the Renaissance, when the spirit of a new humanism began to gather pace, that the idea of helping man to alleviate his pain by means of medical remedies rather than leaving this to divine clemency could be freely propagated. But at that time the means available for effective pain relief were more or less limited...
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Medication Quantification Scale (MQS)
Medication use is an important consideration in chronic-pain rehabilitation programmes. However, it is difficult to quantify this aspect of chronic-pain treatment because patients often take multiple medications differing in pharmacological class and dosage level.
The MQS provides a method for quantifying medication use in patients with chronic, non-malignant pain, but its calculation in clinical practice causes many problems...
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Body Diagram
Using the body diagram you can localise and document your patient's painful areas and monitor changes and additional new localisations. You can download the diagram free of charge...
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P.A.I.N. News
2007/03/14:
Effectiveness of programmable intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS) for chronic noncancer pain: a systematic review.
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2007/03/14:
Multidisciplinary treatment strategy for chronic low back pain and the role of age: a new prospective clinical study.
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2007/03/14:
Acute musculoskeletal rehabilitation in injured workers: medication part of article series on industrial medicine.
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