Pain is a complex sensory experience produced in the brain by the organism in response to various exogenous and endogenous injurious stimuli through the transmission of the nervous system. In the medical world, pain is an ancient but young subject, a common enemy of doctors of all disciplines, both ancient and modern, and the human struggle against pain has never ceased.
According to the etiology of pain, the traditional treatment mainly includes surgical treatment, medical treatment and comprehensive treatment of Chinese medicine, which can play an effective role in the treatment of some painful diseases that can be clearly diagnosed. With the development of pain medicine, some surgical diseases and many medical diseases have been included in the scope of pain medicine, and its connotation has gone beyond the original meaning of pain. Wang Dehui, Department of Integrative Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Changji Branch
Modern pain medicine is a comprehensive clinical discipline that has gradually developed on the basis of modern anesthesiology by absorbing the theories and techniques of various clinical disciplines such as internal, external, orthopedic, neurological, rehabilitation and Chinese medicine, and involves various chronic pain diseases and a wide range of medical fields such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, neurological, endocrine, immune, orthopedic and joint, tumor and psychosomatic diseases. The Department of Pain Medicine, as a medical center for the practice of pain medicine, has a wide range of medical fields such as nerve block, radiofrequency thermocoagulation, spinal cord electrical stimulation, etc., which are regarded as the most promising medical technologies in the 21st century and some special therapies of Chinese and Western medicine.
As a clinical department practicing pain medicine, the Department of Pain Medicine has a certain scale of treatment in China. Its treatment scope includes various chronic pain diseases, such as bone and joint soft tissue diseases, various neurological diseases and pain, postoperative pain, labor pain, cancer pain, cardio-cerebral neurovascular diseases, some immuno-endocrine diseases and chronic fatigue syndrome, neurosis, indeterminate statement syndrome and other psychosomatic diseases.
One of the most common treatment methods in pain medicine, “nerve block” therapy, is worth mentioning. The local anesthetic blocks the nerve transmission of injurious stimuli, leaving the nerve in a semi-dormant state, thus activating the active self-adjustment and self-repair of the internal nervous system and its innervated areas, together with the action of some neurotrophic drugs. The treatment is minimally invasive and uses a small amount of medication, allowing patients to get maximum results with minimal cost. With the unremitting efforts of experts and colleagues dedicated to pain medicine, pain medicine in China has entered a stage of standardization and rapid development, and with the gradual maturation and improvement of its technical level, it will certainly play a great role in improving the health and quality of life of the majority of our people!