Via practica 4/2012

How to manage pain quickly

Rational treatment management of acute pain enable to prevent chronicity transition. The key is use of all available pharmacotherapy methods in already common pain caused by locomotive apparatus, headache, teeth, dysmenorhea etc., and with regard to safety and possible adverse events of analgetics. Lack of information in patients in OTC products, mainly in non-steroid antirevmatics leads to its abusus, avoidable hospitalization, and sometime even to death. Principles of pain treatment are available, and regularly updated in Methodology guidelines for pain treatment SSLB.

Keywords: Oxford league of analgetics, paracetamol, non-steroidal analgetics, back pain, artrodynia, toothache, headache, dysmenorhea.