Pain management: an overview.

Abstract

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience caused by actual or potential tissue damage. This damage is nature’s warning that something is not well within the body. This condition causes loss of workforce and also affects the patients family members in socio-economical and psychological terms. There is an increase in knowledge regarding pain management in recent years. These developments in pain management may provide different opportunities to the patient and their families to lead a more comfortable and productive life. Managing pain is not about making it disappear rather it is about keeping it under control. The aim is not to stop pain in its stride, but to avert the damage caused by it. Prolonged pain is demoralising and debilitating and should be controlled as fast as possible and with all possible means. For this reason in addition to pharmacological treatment now a days non pharmacological treatment options are on rise.