Pain sickness

Classification according to ICD-10
F62.8	Other persistent personality changes Personality changes in chronic pain syndrome
R52.0	Acute pain
R52.1	Chronic uncontrollable pain
R52.2	Other chronic pain
R52.9	Pain, unspecified
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The term pain disorder or pain syndrome describes the (usually chronic) pain as an independent clinical picture , disconnected and independent of its causes.

definition

As painful sick refers patients where the pain his control and warning function lost and an independent clinical significance has attained.

The pain disorder is currently only inadequately reflected in the ICD-10 .

root cause

The cause of the occurrence of a pain disorder is the long-term existence of painful conditions that lead to psychopathological changes regardless of the cause of the pain. Inadequate therapy and an unsuitable way of dealing with pain (coping with pain) can lead to fixation on pain and thus the onset of a pain disorder. The causes of the pain are not always obvious to those affected.

Effects

People affected by the pain disorder often have a long history of illness and often suffer from decreased self-esteem and depression. The disease is a common cause of incapacity for work or disability or impaired social interactions in family and relationships.

therapy

In therapy, the pain disorder is independent of the cause. Treatment should be interdisciplinary.

(→ main article pain therapy )

See also

• Chronic pain syndrome
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Myofascial pain syndrome

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Further training regulations of the Bavarian State Medical Association from January 1, 2009, pdf
2. ↑ German Society for Pain Therapy eV: Chronic pain is not covered by the international diagnosis classification , press release of February 27, 2006, pdf
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Altmeyer p. 87ff., Ea: Theory and Practice of Systemic Family Medicine , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, p., ISBN 3-525-46173-9 , here online
4. ↑ Strian F .: pain , CH Beck, 1996, p 7 et seq., ISBN 3-406-40336-0 , here online
5. ^ Hausotter W .: Assessment of somatoform and functional disorders , Urban & FischerVerlag, 2004, p. 66, ISBN 3-437-22047-0 , here online

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