Obesity and Chronic Pain: Systematic Review of Prevalence and Implications for Pain Practice.

This article examines specific pain management approaches for obese patients and reviews novel interventional techniques for treatment of obesity. The infrastructure for simultaneous treatment of obesity and pain already exists in pain medicine (eg, patient education, behavioral medicine approaches, physical rehabilitation, medications, and interventional treatment). Screening for obesity, pain-related disability, and behavioral disorders as well as monitoring of functional performance should become routine in pain medicine practices. Such an approach requires additional physician and staff training. Further research should focus on better understanding the interplay between these 2 very common conditions and the development of effective treatment strategies. PMID: 25650632 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Pain Physician - February 3, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Narouze S, Souzdalnitski D Tags: Reg Anesth Pain Med Source Type: research