Patient Atlas Pain

The objective of the Patient Atlas Pain is to provide a competent, comprehensive and documented explanation on pain condition and the possible medical approach to be adopted, as well as alternatives and potential risks.

The Patient Atlas Pain was compiled by a multidisciplinary team and takes into account the multifactorial nature of chronic pain and the associated multimodal therapeutic approach in various pain states. The content was additionally reviewed by patients to assess whether the descriptions and explanations are comprehensible to people who are not healthcare professionals.

The Atlas covers the most common pain indications and their treatment, and additional information on how pain develops, how it is processed and the factors that influence it. As well as important psychological aspects, preventive measures are examined.

Download of the single chapter

You can download and print the single topic by clicking on the single chapter. You will get per each chapter two pages, one for the patient with images/drawings and one for you with explanations of the images/drawings to support you by the communication with your patients.

• Acute Pain - a protective function

• How is the pain impulse conducted to the brain?

• Pain perception arises in and is regulated by the brain

• Pain perception differs from individual to individual

• Pain components and pain qualities

• Nociceptive and neuropathic pain

• What is chronic pain?

• How does chronic pain arise?

• The treatment of chronic pain

• Headache and facial pain - cardinal symptoms

• Migraine - how does it develop

• Migraine - symptoms, triggers and treatment

• Tension-type headache

• Cluster headache

• Medication overuse headache

• Trigeminal neuralgia

• Constructions and function of the spine - the 24 movable vertebrae

• Constructions and function of the spine - intervertebral discs, muscles, ligaments and nerves

• Back Pain - overview

• Neck pain (cervical syndrome)

• Lumbago - Non-specific low back pain

• Chronic back pain - the vicious circle disease

• Radicular syndrome following intervertebral disc prolapse

• Facet syndrome (activated spondylarthrosis)

• Spinal stenosis

• Osteoporosis-related back pain

• Osteoarthritis - Development

• Osteoarthritis - Affected joints and causes of pain

• Osteoarthritis - Treatment

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew's disease)

• Fibromyalgia

• Myofascial pain syndrome

• Muscle pain (myalgia) and muscle diseases (myopathies)

• Neuropathies and neuropathic pain

• Zoster neuralgia (shingles) and postherpic neuralgia

• Painful diabetic polyneuropathy

• Bottleneck syndromes (example: carpal tunnel syndrome)

• Complex regional pain syndrome

• Phantom pain