Symptomatická léčba bolesti // SOLEN

Neurológia pre prax 3/2018

Symptomatická léčba bolesti

Symptomatic pain management Chronic pain represents significant society wide society-economy problem. It is participating at a considerable rate to the disability of population of developed countries and it has got adverse effect on quality of life. Strategy for chronic pain treatment is multimodal: it includes pharmacological and rehabilitation treatment, psychotherapy invasive methods and some other treatment alternatives. Basic treatment strategy is based on WHO three – step analgesic ladder. Basic treatment for chronic pain are nonopiod analgesics,combined in accordance with level of pain with weak or strong opioids. The advantage is that we can use products containing tramadol and paracetamol.

Keywords: chronic pain, pain strategy, pharmacotherapy, tramadol/paracetamol