Why go to a “pain department” for pain?

  ”On July 16, 2007, the Ministry of Health issued a document entitled “Notice of the Ministry of Health on the Addition of Pain Medicine to the List of Medical Institutions’ Diagnostic and Treatment Subjects. “The document stipulates that “pain medicine” is a first-class medical subject at the same level as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics in hospitals above the second level.  The new “pain department” is the heart of medical development. First of all, with the development of medical science, people are more conscious of the fact that pain is not only a concomitant symptom of a disease, in many cases, chronic pain is a disease in itself, it is not correct to treat it as a concomitant symptom of other diseases; secondly, the development of medicine, refinement and specialization is the general trend. Just as surgery will be subdivided into hepatobiliary surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, neurosurgery, etc., only by being more specialized will the study of the disease be more in-depth and detailed. The fundamental purpose of establishing a pain department is to eliminate the phenomenon of “small pain department, which does not care about the big pain” and “pain is unbearable and there is no way to seek treatment” by establishing a professional pain treatment team.  ”The difference between the pain department and other disciplines is that the former is a professional player, the latter is an amateur; the former is treated at the root with minimally invasive interventional techniques, the latter relies on symptomatic treatment with drugs. The Ministry of Health issued a document to establish a special pain department, which is to concentrate doctors with characteristics and expertise in pain diagnosis and treatment, to form a professional pain diagnosis and treatment team, to realize the specialization of pain diagnosis and treatment through professional basic and clinical research, so as to get rid of the status quo of pain diagnosis and treatment at the amateur level for a long time.  Under the guidance of imaging and electrophysiology, pain doctors use minimally invasive interventional techniques such as radiofrequency thermocoagulation, laser vaporization, ozone therapy, spinal cord stimulation, subarachnoid indwelling catheter, and in vivo buried drug pump to selectively perform nerve block or precise focal treatment to block the conduction of pain signals or release the compression of nerves, so as to treat pain at the root; while the common methods of other disciplines The common method of other disciplines is to treat pain symptomatically through drugs.  The pain department of Jiaxing First Hospital has concentrated the best and strongest soldiers in the pain treatment profession in Jiaxing. The pain department has 2 provincial 151 second-level talents, 1 provincial health high-level innovative talents, a concentration of Jiaxing pain medicine discipline leaders and reserve discipline leaders, deputy director of the Zhejiang Pain Society, with a number of medical doctors, masters, practitioners in the positive high, deputy high titles accounted for more than 80%, the vice president personally hanged, is the pain medicine innovation team in Jiaxing, the provincial pain medicine It is an innovative team of pain medicine in Jiaxing, a provincial-level pain medicine team, and a regional specialized center of anesthesia and pain in northern Zhejiang.  It has developed a number of domestic leading minimally invasive interventional neuromodulation techniques, won 15 first, second and third prizes from Jiaxing City, Provincial Health Department and Provincial Science and Technology Department, published more than 40 SCI and Chinese medical series papers, and has unique efficacy in the diagnosis and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia, advanced cancer pain, hand sweating, Raynaud’s disease, pediatric enuresis, and neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain. It is also the only clinical discipline in our city that can attract a large number of patients from other provinces and cities to come here for medical treatment. The pain department will soon be expanded to a 56-bed independent ward to provide a good medical environment for various pain patients.  Just like the original intention of the Ministry of Health to establish the pain department, we also hope that the majority of pain patients can understand the pain department and come to the pain department, a professional pain treatment department to relieve their pain.