Research Paper on:
Overview of Pain Management

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This Paper Properly, INTRODUCTION An in-depth look at the study of pain management. Specifically addresses the implications that psychological models of pain have for  pharmacological/medical approaches to pain management. PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS OF PAIN Because pain is in itself a difficult if not impossible concept to measure from patient to patient,  there is some medical controversy regarding the pharmacological/medical approaches to pain management. Pain is sometimes described as have psychological beginnings. If this is the case then, the question  arises as to what the treatment method should be and if it is a pharmacological one, will it be useful in the treatment of a pain of this nature? "Classic  models of disease and pain mechanisms do not adequately explain the commonly observed discrepancies between the extent of pathology and reported pain, or the level of pain and disability" state  Feuerstein and Beattie (267, 1995) in Physical Therapy. This makes it difficult to assess the measures needed to combat the reported pain. Cognitive-perceptual bias is a phenomenon in which  the patient perceives pain to be the onset of a terminal or debilitating disease when in effect it is not. It is this reasoning by the patient, however, that  causes the pain to become more intense than it would normally appear if the patient realized it was only triggered by a properly treatable ailment. There is much research  still needed to determine whether a counseling approach to this pain management is called for, or whether a medical/pharmacological approach would be better suited to deal with the pain (Feuerstein  & Beattie 1995). In some cases there are distinct correlations between patients with personality trait disorders and who suffer from chronic pain. By identifying those patients who suffer from