Orthopedic Surgeons and Rheumatology

Pain Management in Rheumatic Conditions

Pain management is the current area of increasing research and clinical effort in the field of rheumatology, pain management is turning into a region of expanding research and clinical exertion in the discipline of rheumatology. It is a very common symptom of patient with rheumatic disorders or musculoskeletal disease and it can happen in both inflammatory and non-inflammatory conditions. The pain associated with the rheumatic disorders is difficult to determine. Development of pain is the cause of tissue damage due to the inflammatory or non-inflammatory conditions. Effective pain management is an important issue to be overcome in future. Rheumatologist access to the pain from the proximal cause of pain such as inflammation, tissue injury and concentrated a therapy to reduce cause of pain by multimodal approach, integrating pharmacological as well as non-pharmacologic treatments. In the view of new concept pharmaceutical treatment has wider scope in comparison to the traditional methods of using analgesics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.