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  2. Chronic pain - Wikipedia

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    Non-opioid treatment of chronic pain with pharmaceutical medicines might include acetaminophen (paracetamol) [45] or NSAIDs. [46] Various other nonopioid medicines can be used, depending on whether the pain is a result of tissue damage or is neuropathic (pain caused by a damaged or dysfunctional nervous system).

  3. List of chronic pain syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Explanatory model of chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as reoccurring or persistent pain lasting more than 3 months. [1] The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". [2]

  4. Chronic condition - Wikipedia

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    A chronic condition (also known as chronic disease or chronic illness) is a health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time. The term chronic is often applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months.

  5. Different Types of Pain, Explained - AOL

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    Acute pain and chronic pain are the two major pain "buckets." Chronic pain, which is more complex, includes several categories involving a variety of causes and treatments. Here are some of the ...

  6. Pain management - Wikipedia

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    Treatment approaches to chronic pain include pharmacological measures, such as analgesics (pain killer drugs), antidepressants, and anticonvulsants; interventional procedures, physical therapy, physical exercise, application of ice or heat; and psychological measures, such as biofeedback and cognitive behavioral therapy.

  7. CDC's new opioid guidelines are too little, too late for ...

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    CDC's guidelines for opioid prescriptions for people with chronic pain allow doctors more flexibility. Some worry the changes will take too long to help.

  8. Pain disorder - Wikipedia

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    Pain conditions are generally considered "acute" if they last less than six months, and "chronic" if they last six or more months. [4] The neurological or physiological basis for chronic pain disorders is currently unknown; they are not explained by, for example, clinically obtainable evidence of disease or of damage to the painful areas.

  9. Opioid tapering - Wikipedia

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    While the CDC guideline was intended to inform primary care physicians on new prescription initiation, in many cases it was misapplied beyond this narrow scope and used to inform opioid tapering practices among patients taking long-term prescription opioids for chronic pain.