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ISSUE: Will the "new" Field of Pain Psychology and 'Multi-Modality' Pain Management Help People in Pain - or Distract and Detract and Confuse?
VIEWS:
1. e.g. YES: It helps to see more than one physicain and provider for consitions of pain. There are various perspectives on the person that must be taken into account.
2. e.g. NO - It cost a great deal in time, travel, and stress inmposed on someone already in pain and possibly even immediate agony, and ends up with a diagnosis of "pain" or "imagination" and meanwhile the pain is still there.
OTHER: _ _ _ (comments welcome _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . . .
REVIEWS: Among patients with pain (head and face pain is an example) posting on the Net there are very mixed reviews. In concept at least, recognizing the complexities of living with pain, an ideal plan encompassing the "whole person" can be immediately appealing. But unless these services are under one roof, the patient can enter - and do report entering - a maze; the overhead of time, travel, and stress can take over and pain even increase. Furthermore it is expressed that few can afford even one physician, and there is talk of providers now ' passing the buck,' and the person in agony getting only a few minutes with any one presumed provider, in any event. Or being asked about their pain 1-10 and that's it.
Again, in the ideal, the general model of multi-modality is approved of: Physician, Psychologist, social worker? But should these visits/connections be imposed? And, in particular, what about alternative forms e.g. nutrition and social networking being added? And much questioned is wherther pain is actually the topic rather than efforts to claim the pain is psychological; and there is a real issue whether psychotropic drugs are being "pushed." Some feel this is another insurance business opportunity, some just plain welcome opportunity to talk with someone other than e.g. a very busy neurologist who just has a few minutes. Some think each of these thoughts and others at different times; perhaps you are a discussant in pain lists on the Internet or yourself have pondered such issues independently..
OTHER: _ _ _ (comments welcome _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . . .
FURTHER: What sort of acces to healthcare might ease your pain presently? In the long term?
:) TIA for posts, LindaMF.
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