[Prevention of Chronic Pain in the German Healthcare System : Current State and Perspective]

Overview

Journal Schmerz

Date 2021 Jan 15

PMID 33449168

Citations 3

Authors

Ulrike Kaiser

Bernd Nagel

Frank Petzke

Michael Pfingsten

Anne Gartner

Thomas Isenberg

Katharina Augustin

Carolin Martin

Gabriele Lindena

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Abstract

The current healthcare provision in Germany is established, in particular, for the diagnostics and treatment of chronic pain conditions; however, the current aim is to initiate the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches oriented towards the biopsychosocial pain model in the early stages of pain, i.e. before the onset of chronification, for patients with pain and a risk of chronification in order to actively avoid chronification processes. In this context, multiple risk factors play an important role for the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches as well as for the interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy developed for this purpose. The Global Year of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 2020 addressed the prevention of (chronic) pain, a welcome opportunity to provide a short review of the evidence for and clinical experiences with timely diagnostic and therapeutic options and to summarize the current framework conditions and scientific recommendations for Germany. At the end of this article the implications for future research are summarized, particularly for the treatment of patients with pain and risk of chronification.

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