Pain management, pain medicine, pain control or algiatry, may be a branch of drugs that uses an interdisciplinary approach for alleviating the suffering and improving the standard of lifetime of those living with chronic pain.
Pain sometimes resolves quickly once the underlying trauma or pathology has healed, and is treated by one practitioner, with drugs like analgesics.
Pain is complex, so there are many treatment options
Medications
Therapies
mind-body techniques
Learn the benefits and risks of each, including addiction.