[Concept of the Pain Management in the Convalescent Rehabilitation]

Convalescent rehabilitation is a treatment designed to facilitate the process of recovery from disease or injury to as normal a condition as possible. The effective rehabilitation is required to improve functions to bring about the highest possible level of independence, physically, psychologically, socially and economically within a limited hospitalization period. Pain often inhibits the effective rehabilitation, and the pain management in the convalescent rehabilitation ward is important. In particular, it is important to evaluate the pain promptly and accurately, and to treat it by a multidisciplinary team approach, preventing a shift to chronic pain. In this article, we describe the role of each member in the convalescent rehabilitation team and the characteristic pains caused by representative diseases.