D.O. Man is fundamentally a creative, searching, self-perfecting being. To inquire and to create these are the centers around which all human pursuits more or less directly revolve. The cultivation of the understanding of pain and pain management is generally achieved by one's own activities, one's own ingenuity, or one's own method of using the discrovery process of others. In the past, most physicians were preoccupied with the transmission of uncultivated knowledge than with the creation of new and improved methods to benefit those patients suffering from pain, both acute and chronic. Recently, the introduction of Spinal Cord Stimulator and IntraSpinal Drug Infusion Therapy, a bold and dynamic vehicle has been created by which the maniuplation of chronic pain quandaries can be challenged and terminated.
Neuropathic pain is opiate resistant.
Immediate - If the injury is surface only, the response is reflex withdrawal whether or not there is awareness of the injury. However, if the patient is distracted, pain is suppressed permitting the patient to escape. Protracted - This phase exhibits aversive behavior, agony, withdrawing and the inhibition of painful acts or movement. This pattern forces the patient to take time to heal. The purpose is clouded but forces a retreat from responsibility.