Special pain therapy
The special pain therapy is an additional training for doctors (additional qualification) . It includes the detection and treatment of chronically pain-sick patients, in whom the pain has developed into an independent clinical picture.
For admission to the examination to acquire the additional qualification, a specialist certification in a clinical specialty as well as a further training of 12 months in special pain therapy with an authorized person for further training and in addition an 80-hour further training course is required.
Topics and contents of the training are for example:
- Standardized pain history and pain analysis,
- psychosomatic diagnostics,
- Advice to pain patients and
- various pain therapy procedures.
The details are regulated in the medical training regulations of the respective medical association . As in all medical specialties, the relevant knowledge, experience and skills must be proven to the Medical Association by the certificate of the doctor with further training and presented in an examination before doctors in the same specialist field.