[Basic Strategy for Pain Control in Rehabilitation]

Rehabilitation medicine regards pain as one disorder of whole human character and handles pain through multilateral approaches. When only the pain is treated it will not be relieved easily. Chronic pain can be more effectively handled if pain is considered as one obstacle of the whole human character and handled using many skills of rehabilitation medicine. We should apply physiotherapy including functional treatment, physical treatment and exercise from early stages of acute pain and approach chronic pain. This could improve the effectiveness of treatment for many kinds of acute pain and chronic pain disorders.