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Dr. Joseph Pergolizzi: An Holistic Approach to Pain Relief | Healthy Directions
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I try to individualize my therapy for each patient and each patient's pain is very personal and so when I create a pain treatment algorithm or plan for my patients I really want to understand not just how bad their pain is but how their pain affects their daily activities of Life their functionality and their quality of life my interaction with my patients is very much like a detective I'm trying to find out exactly how bad the pain is and what the impact or the burden of that pain is on their life once I understand that and I feel their pain then I can start to address how we're going to manage their pain what we do in pain medicine is we try to address the patient in what we call a bioc psychosocial model that means addressing the patient very holistically looking at all these different elements and then matching up an individualized treatment for our patient and when we start to think about how those treatments actually work in our patients we're going to offer them pharmacological treatments and non-pharmacological treatments and when we do that it's called multimodal therapy we combine the two together so non-pharmacological treatments may include things like rest and ice and exercise and physical rehabilitation and it's critically important that those are included in a pain management strategy when we start to think about interventions from the sense of pharmacological strategies those can be achieved in many different ways I usually like to start with the least invasive so I'll think of topical agents agents where I can apply them directly where the pain is and then we'll progress from a topical agent maybe to a oral agent sometimes the patients will need more than one pain medication because pain can be controlled at different points along the pain Pathways so we may combine different type of drugs we call that a multi mechanistic analgesic regiment and with this type of regiment where we may be using oral agents and topical agents we're usually able to get adequate pain relief but it's not just about pain relief you have to have functionality you have to have quality of life you have to be be having activities of daily living and this has a lot to do with patient satisfaction so I'm very much gauging how much pain relief I can give my patients in correspondence to how it's improving their life now there is differences between chronic pain and acute pain with acute pain we expect it to resolve naturally over a short period of time and so those type of patients I want to provide them with appropriate and adequate analgesia and I really want to address the pain particularly the severity of the pain with chronic pain patients this is something that unfortunately is going to be around for a long time and they usually have had it for a long time before they come to see me and now what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to reduce the pain probably not eliminate it 100% but reduce it as best as I can and then start to address activities of daily living quality of life uh patient satisfaction Etc and so it's that constellation again back to that bioc psychosocial [Music] model [Music]
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