[Pain Therapy Follows Function: Interventional Pain Therapy in an Interdisciplinary Setting]

Reducing pain is an indubitable ethical requirement; the need for pain treatment is compelling. Modern pain therapy should take place in an interdisciplinary context in order to use the advantages of combined somatic and psychological therapies. The aim is to support patients in strengthening their self-efficacy and developing strategies for accepting (some residual) chronic pain. Interventional pain therapy should be favored over administering analgesics on a long-term basis. Both psychotherapeutic and body therapy techniques should be used to strengthen self-efficacy and acceptance. Successes in pain therapy from a cooperation between the various disciplines create the conditions for patients to become active again themselves and to try to give any remaining pain the space it deserves in their lives.