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Psychological Management of Pain

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Pain is a multifaceted experience, including both sensory and emotional components. For many with persistent pain, a solely biomedical approach to treatment is insufficient, for it fails to address the psychosocial factors that drive pain and disability. It is often necessary to include a biopsychosocial approach that may include exercise/physical reconditioning, education (of the patient and family members), and psychological approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-/acceptance-based therapies, behavior modification, and biofeedback training. Treatment of comorbid psychiatric illness is also essential to appropriately manage the patient with pain. Some patients require a more intensive, comprehensive interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program (IPRP). These programs have been shown to be cost-effective and efficacious; however, their availability is extremely limited.

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    Sara Davin PsyD, MPH & Edward Covington MD

  2. Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Judith Scheman PhD

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Davin, S., Scheman, J., Covington, E. (2018). Psychological Management of Pain. In: Cheng, J., Rosenquist, R. (eds) Fundamentals of Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64922-1_7

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