Chronic pain

Chronic pain is a difficult to treat symptoms in which the pain has become independent and becomes an independent disease. The most common clinical pictures of chronic pain include backache and headache. Nerve pain is also common. Chronic pain quite widespread, millions of people in Germany suffer from it. One speaks of a chronic pain syndrome when pain persists for more than three to six months, or for pain that lasts over the expected healing period.

There are two different forms of chronic pain, nociceptive and neuropathic pain. Nociceptive pain can occur as a result of tissue trauma in which the peripheral and central nervous system remains functional. Whereas neuropathic pain may arise after damage or diseases of the peripheral or central nervous system. The chronic pain illness can have far-reaching consequences on those affected. In addition to occupational disability, mental illnesses such as depression are a possible consequence. The treatment of the syndrome is complicated and requires resource and time-consuming multimodal pain therapy. Here, different elements of different treatment concepts, such as psycho, behavioral and occupational therapy, combined. (Vb)

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