Category:Pain
Pain is a common problem and the primary therapeutic objectives of physical therapists working with people in pain are the reduction of pain and associated disability, the improvement of function, and promotion of health and well-being in everyday living.
For the most effective management of pain, physical therapists must have an understanding of the biological basis, the psychosocial and environmental components of pain and their impact on the pain experience across the life span. Therapists should be familiar with pain assessment and measurement approaches and should be able to implement a broad variety of evidence-based pain management strategies. The key focus is to encourage early engagement of the patient in appropriate active pain management strategies (what the patient can do) rather than focus on passive interventions (what you do to the patient). In this regard, treatment interventions are designed to form part of an overall pain management approach which should also incorporate self-management.
While physical therapists are not responsible for pharmacological management, they should have sufficient knowledge about pharmacological agents and their side effects and be able to optimise the 'therapeutic window' offered by pharmaceutical agents to encourage the use of active management strategies as appropriate for each individual patient. It is essential to take a patient-centred holistic and collaborative view of the needs of the client/patient with pain and disability.
Pages in category "Pain"
The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total.
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- Cancer Pain
- Case Study: Adolescent Anterior Knee Pain
- CBT Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain
- Central Sensitisation
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Pain and the Brain
- Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS)
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome - Male
- Classification of Fulkerson and Shea for Malalignment in a Patient with Chronic Patellofemoral Pain
- Clinical Guidelines: Pain Science
- Cluster Headache Case Study
- Coccygodynia (Coccydynia, Coccalgia, Tailbone Pain)
- Communication with Patients with Chronic Pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Complexities of Pain Assessment
- Considering the Stress Pain Cycle in Assessment
- Constipation
- CPR for Cervicothoracic Manipulation and Shoulder Pain
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- Paediatric Knee
- Pain Assessment
- Pain Assessment for People Who Have Dementia
- Pain Behaviours
- Pain Catastrophizing Scale
- Pain Facilitation and Inhibition
- Pain Management of the Amputee
- Pain Mechanisms
- Pain Medications
- Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE)
- Pain Release Phenomenon (PRP)
- Parsonage-Turner Syndrome
- Patient Education in Pain Management
- Peripheral sensitization
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Pharmacology in Pain Management
- Physiotherapy Assessment of Pain within a Trauma-Informed Care Model
- Piriformis Syndrome
- Posterior Knee Pain
- Posterior Pelvic Pain Provocation Test
- Template:PPA
- Prescribing in Physiotherapy for Pain
- Prescription Drug Abuse (Narcotic Painkillers)
- Principles of Pain Management
- Processing of Nociception
- Psychological Approaches to Pain Management
- Psychological Basis of Pain
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- Seasonal Variation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sensorimotor Impairment in Neck Pain
- Sensory-Discriminative and Affective-Motivational Components of Pain
- Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire
- Should I receive manual therapy and exercise for my neck pain?: A patient decision aid
- Shoulder Osteoarthritis
- Sign of the Buttock
- Sociological Basis of Pain
- Sternal Pain - Different Causes