Pain medicine is a branch of anaesthetics concerned with the treatment of acute and chronic pain. Modern pain medicine is individualised, holistic, and multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of drugs and physical and psychosocial interventions.

References

• http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7390/635
• http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/pain

External links

• International Association for the Study of Pain