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Pain Psychology and Perioperative Pain Management

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The experience of pain is a complex phenomenon which encompasses internal processes of sensation, perception, emotion, memory, cognition, and learning that interact with external factors such as culture, socioeconomic status, and the social environment. All these contribute to overall suffering whether pain is acute or chronic in nature. Psychological factors help paint a more complete picture of the dynamic processes involved in pain as it waxes and wanes in intensity and chronicity. From this understanding, psychological interventions have been developed to help individuals cope with and accept pain by learning to confront aversive physical sensations in creative ways rather than simply avoiding them. Oftentimes, these skills cannot be learned, internalized, and enacted within a perioperative timeframe. A comprehensive and coordinated effort in the pre- and postoperative phases would potentially have the greatest positive effect on outcomes.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook Medicine Pain Division, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Patricia W. Tsui, Abhishek K. Gupta & Christopher R. Page

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Cynthia A. Cervoni

  3. Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

    Nomita Sonty

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  2. Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

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  3. Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

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Tsui, P.W., Gupta, A.K., Cervoni, C.A., Page, C.R., Sonty, N. (2021). Pain Psychology and Perioperative Pain Management. In: Svider, P.F., Pashkova, A.A., Johnson, A.P. (eds) Perioperative Pain Control: Tools for Surgeons. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56081-2_9

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