Pain Medicine: This is a Time for Neurologists to Take Over the Initiative
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2019, Vol 14, Issue 5
Abstract
Although pain management as core of healing (“Sedare dolorum divinum est”) has been declared by Hippocrates in old ages, the Pain medicine as a field of contemporary medicine exists slightly more than half century. The sunrise of pain medicine is closely related to the name of John Bonica who laid the background for pain medicine in the middle of XX century [1]. John Bonica was the first anesthesiologist who understood a new responsibility of specialty in a changing pain theatre. He found that the painful sensation in many cases can be long staying as undesirable attendant which breaks normal lives to many people. Jonh Bonica has declared new duties mandatory for anesthesiologists - to be leader physicians who mobilize healthcare specialists to work together and help people with chronic unbearable pain. He believed in a team approach to the field of pain management, meaning that is necessary to incorporate various specialties to treat acute and chronic pain. He developed the concept of multidisciplinary pain clinics, and multimodal approach in pain management soon has become the basis of new field of medicine. In 1973 John Bonica tweeted a pain forum of outstanding clinicians and researchers to the meeting near Seattle (USA) and founded the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the organization which unites healthcare professionals of more than one hundred thirty specialties and is the world leader for pain treatment and research.
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Arunas Sciupokas
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- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.14.002600
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