Pain management is the branch of medicine concerned with the assessment, reduction, and treatment of acute and chronic pain arising from disease, injury, or surgery, grounded in a biopsychosocial model that integrates physiological, psychological, and social dimensions of the pain experience. Clinically, pain is dif…
Pain management is the branch of medicine concerned with the assessment, reduction, and treatment of acute and chronic pain arising from disease, injury, or surgery, grounded in a biopsychosocial model that integrates physiological, psychological, and social dimensions of the pain experience. Clinically, pain is differentiated by mechanism into nociceptive, inflammatory, and neuropathic types, and by duration into acute and chronic states, each shaping the therapeutic strategy. Effective control is typically multimodal and multidisciplinary, combining pharmacologic analgesia, ranging from non-opioid agents and adjuvants to opioids and novel toxin-based compounds, with interventional procedures such as targeted injections, and with non-pharmacologic and behavioral approaches. Research in this area examines the intra-articular use of gonyautoxins and paralytic shellfish toxin for pain and arthrofibrosis following total knee arthroplasty and meniscectomy, analgesic dosing and pain-trend clinical decision support, and chronic pain after lung transplantation and mastectomy. Further work addresses sacral injection techniques, music-induced analgesia mediated by endogenous opioids, pain in uro-andrological conditions, and the association between osteoarthritis and depression that frames pain within its broader psychological context. These themes reflect the interventional, pharmacologic, and chronic-pain dimensions central to the field. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research spanning novel analgesics, procedural interventions, decision-support tools, and the comorbid burden of persistent pain.
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