Chronic pain is already a common disease

Chronic pain - a widespread disease

08/13/2013

Affected people often do not know anymore. For them, chronic pain is particularly tragic. They usually lead to a lowering of the pain threshold. This inevitably causes psychopathological changes and burdens on the personal social environment.

How can chronic pain develop?
A chronic pain syndrome or a chronic pain disease arise when pain loses its actual function as a warning and guidance and thus receives an independent pathological value. In colloquial language is often the expression „used chronic pain.

Common disease Chronic pain
For Thomas Isenberg, Managing Director of the German Pain Society, the policy is the duty to deal with this problem.

„Many report long delays in the health care system before receiving appropriate treatment. That is why pain diseases must finally become a hot topic among health and political actors at federal and state level“, he said in an interview.

Back pain is one of the most common pain problems, leading to long-term disability, in addition to headaches. The focus is on unspecific back pain without identifiable anatomical and neurophysiological causes. The extent of the health problem of back pain can also be recognized by the fact that 4% of the total workforce in Germany is lost due to sick leave due to back pain. An estimated eight million sufferers and around € 25 billion in annual costs due to chronic pain make the fight against pain a task of national interest.

Reasons for pain diseases: nutrition and lack of relaxation. Especially for children an indiez
Reasons for the "common disease chronic pain" are for Isenberg, inter alia, an unbalanced diet and the lack of relaxation options that the body needs. Especially in children, it is important to timely recognize the causes of pain and treat it so that the suffering is not first become chronic.

According to DGSS, approximately 300,000 to 350,000 children aged 8 to 17 throughout Germany suffer from chronic pain, and the trend is rising.

Their supply is badly ordered. "A very large proportion of the approximately 13 million pain patients nationwide are currently receiving inadequate treatment, including many children," says Thomas Isenberg, Managing Director of the German Pain Association. The topic must finally become the top topic of health policy. "But improvements are also urgently needed in regional health care. (Fr)