[Multimodal Pain Therapy for Treatment of Chronic Pain Syndrome. Consensus Paper of the Ad Hoc Commission on Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pain Management of the German Pain Society on Treatment Contents]

Overview

Journal Schmerz

Date 2014 Sep 14

PMID 25216605

Citations 64

Authors

B Arnold

T Brinkschmidt

H-R Casser

A Diezemann

I Gralow

D Irnich

U Kaiser

B Klasen

K Klimczyk

J Lutz

B Nagel

M Pfingsten

R Sabatowski

R Schesser

M Schiltenwolf

D Seeger

W Sollner

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Abstract

Multimodal pain management is a comprehensive treatment of complex chronic pain syndromes. In addition to medical therapy various other specialized therapeutic interventions based on the biopsychosocial model of pain origin and chronic pain development, are added. During the last few years treatment centers for chronic pain have been established throughout Germany. Multimodal pain management has been included in the official catalogue of the recognized medical procedures for day clinic units as well as for inpatient pain management. In daily practice there is, however, still a lack of clarity and of consistency about the components that multimodal pain management should contain. This is the reason for the ad hoc commission on multimodal interdisciplinary pain management of the German Pain Society to propose the following position paper that has been worked out in a multilevel and interdisciplinary consensus process. The paper describes the mandatory treatment measures in the four core disciplines of multimodal pain management, pain medicine, psychotherapy, exercise therapy including physiotherapy and assistant medical professions including nurses.

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