Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel

Chronic pain is a major public health problem that places serious stress on afflicted individuals and associated with deficits in quality of life, psychological adjustment, disability, reduced income potential, high levels of health care utilization and great loss to the nation as a whole. Chronic p...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed, Abdul Hadi, Abdullah, Nor Zamzila, Lukman, Mohd Fahmi, Ahmad, Mohd Ashri, Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri, Osman, Ariff
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	R Medicine (General)
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spelling	iium-141302013-08-26T08:28:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/14130/ Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel Mohamed, Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Lukman, Mohd Fahmi Ahmad, Mohd Ashri Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri Osman, Ariff R Medicine (General) Chronic pain is a major public health problem that places serious stress on afflicted individuals and associated with deficits in quality of life, psychological adjustment, disability, reduced income potential, high levels of health care utilization and great loss to the nation as a whole. Chronic pain with the multitude of aetiologies is not only difficult to diagnose but also impose a great challenge in its management. Oral analgesics are considered as first-line therapy where stronger analgesics are used when pain control is not optimised. However, when pharmacological therapy or conventional surgery fails to control the pain, the role of minimally invasive interventional procedures become an option for the treatment of chronic pain. Interventional procedures target the neural structures that are presumed to mediate the experience of pain. This service is still very limited in our country as a result of limited expertise in this area. The Pain Management Clinic and Intervention Service at the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan is one of the few centres in this country to have such a service. This service can be a niche area for research and a centre of excellence for our university in the future. We reported two classical cases of chronic pain that were treated with pain intervention to control severe pain after failing conservative management. After suffering for such a long period, these patients finally see lights at the end of the tunnel. Author Keywords: Chronic pain, conservative management, pain intervention 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/14130/1/Poster_IRIIE_2011%2C_ID172_%28modified%29.ppt Mohamed, Abdul Hadi and Abdullah, Nor Zamzila and Lukman, Mohd Fahmi and Ahmad, Mohd Ashri and Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri and Osman, Ariff (2011) Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel. In: International Islamic University Malaysia Research, Invention and Innovation 2011, 9-10 February 2011, IIUM, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/irie/11/
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) Mohamed, Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Lukman, Mohd Fahmi Ahmad, Mohd Ashri Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri Osman, Ariff Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
description	Chronic pain is a major public health problem that places serious stress on afflicted individuals and associated with deficits in quality of life, psychological adjustment, disability, reduced income potential, high levels of health care utilization and great loss to the nation as a whole. Chronic pain with the multitude of aetiologies is not only difficult to diagnose but also impose a great challenge in its management. Oral analgesics are considered as first-line therapy where stronger analgesics are used when pain control is not optimised. However, when pharmacological therapy or conventional surgery fails to control the pain, the role of minimally invasive interventional procedures become an option for the treatment of chronic pain. Interventional procedures target the neural structures that are presumed to mediate the experience of pain. This service is still very limited in our country as a result of limited expertise in this area. The Pain Management Clinic and Intervention Service at the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan is one of the few centres in this country to have such a service. This service can be a niche area for research and a centre of excellence for our university in the future. We reported two classical cases of chronic pain that were treated with pain intervention to control severe pain after failing conservative management. After suffering for such a long period, these patients finally see lights at the end of the tunnel. Author Keywords: Chronic pain, conservative management, pain intervention
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohamed, Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Lukman, Mohd Fahmi Ahmad, Mohd Ashri Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri Osman, Ariff
author_facet	Mohamed, Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Lukman, Mohd Fahmi Ahmad, Mohd Ashri Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri Osman, Ariff
author_sort	Mohamed, Abdul Hadi
title	Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
title_short	Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
title_full	Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
title_fullStr	Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
title_full_unstemmed	Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel
title_sort	pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: the light at the end of the tunnel
publishDate	2011
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Pain intervention for failed conservative chronic pain treatment: The light at the end of the tunnel

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