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CHANGE PAIN Expert Summit, Rome, June 2010

At the CHANGE PAIN Expert Summit Pain about 200 specialists from across Europe met in Rome to discuss current needs and latest insights in chronic pain management. At the scientific event organised by Grünenthal, experts from the international CHANGE PAIN Advisory Board presented topics relevant in optimizing current pain management.

Prof. Verassi, Dr. Müller-Schwefe, S. Wiemer

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The aim of the CHANGE PAIN Physician Survey is to ascertain how physicians perceive chronic non-cancer pain, and their opinions on its treatment.

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Pain from peripheral nerve injury, infammation and cancer, can be characterized by ongoing pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia AND from an interplay between peripheral and central processes.

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The rationale for mechanism-orientated treatment is that pain can be caused by multiple mechanisms, and is processed and modulated by multiple excitatory and inhibitory systems.

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Since pain assessment is essential for successful pain management a thorough understanding of pain pathophysiology is of high relevance.
PAIN EDUCATION - a new educational programme.

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Effective pain management requires careful patient assessment and the development of individual treatment goals.

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Overview of CHANGE PAIN activities.

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Chronic pain should not just be regarded as an indicator of an underlying disease or damaging process, but as a problem in its own right.

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Chronic pain has an impact on all daily activities and incurs costs for the individual sufferer, health systems and society.

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Unlike acute pain, chronic pain is uncoupled from the causative event, has lost its warning and protective function, and its severity no longer correlates with the causal stimulus.

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In routine clinical settings, many chronic pain patients currently receive inadequate pain relief and many discontinue treatment because of side effects.

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