As a pain doctor I would like to talk about this issue. Now the pain department in many hospitals have not been well developed, including a lot of big hospitals, so the ordinary people on the pain department is even more strange. Pain in a lot of hospitals has become a marginal department, and even neglected, but the pain department is to cover the internal, external, women, children, traditional Chinese medicine, dermatology, and radiology, ultrasound, biochemistry and other multi-specialty integrated departments, pain in the department as the name suggests, in pain, it can be said that a good pain can be solved and pain-related diseases, covering all the pain from the head to the foot of all the pain disease, headache - neck pain - chest pain - back pain - hip pain Low back pain - hip pain - leg pain - foot pain, the most common such as neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, which is routine in the pain department, there are a lot of other departments can not deal with some of the difficult cases, such as intractable ergonomics, herpes herpes post-postherpetic pain, pathologic neuralgia, in the pain department is also routinely admitted, and even internal medicine gynecological many diseases. The reason why the pain department can treat so many diseases is that the pain department has the treatment means that the department does not have, the treatment means of the pain department can be said to have eighteen shifts of weapons, drugs - a variety of physical therapy instrument - acupuncture - cupping - massage - orthopedic bone - knife - nerve block - ultrasound-guided precision treatment of all kinds of radiofrequency - CT-guided block or nerve destruction, etc., so the pain department can be a solution to the patient. There are so many ailments that pain medicine is now being emphasized more and more.
Now, more and more hospitals, large and small, have set up pain units, which in some hospitals are just starting out and are in the process of improving and developing, while in some hospitals they are already at a fairly mature stage. It has brought the gospel to pain patients, in general terms, the pain department is to treat almost all kinds of chronic pain in the body of a department. So what pain conditions does it treat and what treatments are available?
The most common such as headache, a lot of people are tormented by headache, such as migraine, headache caused by cervical spondylosis, headache, headache and other headache diseases; then cervical spondylosis and its caused by the numbness of the upper limbs, lumbar disc herniation lumbar pain, arthritis, achalasia, and other osteoarthralgia; the organization of the pain: such as muscular pain, myofasciitis, lumbar muscle strain, supraspinous ligamentous inflammation, tendinosis, frozen shoulder, etc.; neuralgia, neuralgic pain, neuralgic pain. Neuralgia: various kinds of neuropathic pains such as trigeminal innervation head and face pain, intercostal innervation chest pain, sciatic innervation lower limb pain, shingles pain, etc.; and various kinds of cancerous pains; in addition, there are also some diseases that don't show pain: such as intractable hiccups, facial palsy, tendon sheath cysts, etc. Pain management methods, such as oral medication, local injections, nerve blocks, destruction, polarized light irradiation and other physical therapy, as well as some advanced interventional, radiofrequency technology, etc., different levels of hospitals to carry out the pain treatment technology and have different treatment equipment.
There are also hospitals where the pain department also carries out painless gastroscopy, painless abortion, painless labor and delivery, as well as with the gynecological painless diagnostic scraping, painless hysteroscopy and other work. The feeling of pain is agonizing, it affects human physiology and quality of life, hospitals at all levels in order to meet the treatment needs of pain patients, so that the pain department continues to rise.
This issue's respondent: Liu Na, M.S.
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Hello, the pain department to see a wide range of patients, their main purpose is to solve the patient's pain, like a lot of osteoarthritis, advanced tumor, lumbar disc herniation and other diseases of the patient, their pain is unimaginable, and the disease can not be eradicated, the role of the pain department is reflected in the alleviation of the patient's pain, improve the quality of life of patients.
Which chronic pain patients can be treated at the pain clinic?
Personal understanding, if there is an error, please point out that the pain department is mainly cancer pain, other pain as a supplement to the diagnosis and treatment of the department, mainly to the use of linen and essence drugs, as well as steroidal and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, for the disease or cancer more, other such as neuropathic pain, traumatic injury pain, etc., there is a systematic determination of the grade of the pain and the use of medication gradient, the current opening of the pain department of hospitals are relatively few, may be mainly focused on Oncology specialty hospitals are relatively more, is a systematic and comprehensive clinical department.
What does the pain department look for
The pain department mainly looks for pain-related diseases.
Some of the pains that can be dealt with in a pain unit are:
1. Headaches of various causes, including migraines, trigeminal neuralgia, and tension headaches.
2. Various kinds of neuropathic pain, such as postherpetic neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, post-surgical chronic pain syndrome, residual limb pain, phantom limb pain and so on.
3. Neck and shoulder pain, lumbar and leg pain, arthralgia, etc., including cervical disc herniation, lumbar disc herniation, osteoarthritis, heel pain and so on.
4. Certain gynecological diseases, including dysmenorrhea, pain caused by chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.
5. Cancer pain, including localized pain at the tumor site and systemic metastatic pain.
6. Other acute and chronic muscle and tissue strain pain, such as acute and chronic lumbar strain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, pear-shaped muscle syndrome.
Pain medicine is a comprehensive department whose main role is to treat all kinds of pain-related diseases. Pain can be treated after a clear diagnosis of pain; some patients have pain symptoms, but do not know which department to see, you can first in the pain department, the pain doctor to determine whether to continue in the pain department or refer to the relevant departments for treatment. The pain can be relieved and the patient's suffering can be minimized by treatment in the pain department.
This content was reviewed by Dr. Jun Li, Deputy Chief Physician of the Pain Medicine Department at Peking University People's Hospital
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The Pain Medicine Department was established in 2007 at the request of the Ministry of Health to diagnose and treat chronic pain caused by a variety of reasons, including headache, neck and shoulder pain, and pain in all parts of the body, which can be generalized to include headache, neck and shoulder pain, and other pains. The pain in the back and shoulders and legs do not need surgery or do not want to do surgery; but also includes the cause of the pain is unclear acute pain, and a variety of unexplained discomfort, muscle spasms, facial paralysis, intractable uh-oh, as well as serious intractable menopausal syndrome, osteoporosis, and so on.
Whether it is a big pain or a small pain, and you can't decide which department to go to, you can go directly to the pain department first.
The pain department is mainly based on nerve closure, minimally invasive interventional surgery, drug treatment methods, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, lumbar disc herniation, sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, various joint pain, shingles, and cancer pain, cancer patients hospice.
Pain has been listed by modern medicine as the fifth vital sign after respiration, pulse, blood pressure and body temperature.
Pain clinics are part of modern anesthesiology and focus on resolving pain and improving life treatment for patients.
Pain clinic mainly uses nerve block method, small needle therapy.
As long as the scope of treatment includes: headache, neuralgia, cancer pain bone and joint pain; some pain clinics also do painless gastroscopy, painless abortion and so on.
Pain clinics in China is not very perfect. Because the range of pain is very wide, for the doctor is also very high requirements, hold a certain full range of medical disciplines. Including internal medicine, surgery, car accidents and so on. Generally, after the hospitalization of patients discharged from tertiary hospitals, there will be pain clinics to receive these patients, pain rehabilitation physiotherapy, and finally get a full healing. China has a lot of potential in this area and needs to train a lot of people. I am also very familiar with this area. The company's business is a very good one, and it's a very good one, and it's a very good one.