Ignacio Morón Merchante, Joseph V Pergolizzi, Mart van de Laar, Hans-Ulrich Mellinghoff, Srinivas Nalamachu, Joanne O'Brien, Serge Perrot, Robert B Raffa
The family practitioner plays an important role in the prevention, diagnosis, and early management of chronic pain. He/she is generally the first to be consulted, the one most familiar with the patients and their medical history, and is likely the first to be alerted in case of inadequate pain control or safety and tolerability issues. The family practitioner should therefore be at the center of the multidisciplinary team involved in a patient's pain management. The most frequent indications associated with chronic pain in family practice are of musculoskeletal origin, and the pain is often multimechanistic...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine