de C Williams, AC;
Baird, E;
(2016)
Special Considerations for the Treatment of Pain from Torture and War.
Current Anesthesiology Reports
, 6
(4)
pp. 319-326.
10.1007/s40140-016-0187-0.
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Abstract
Pain care for survivors of torture and of war shows similarities and marked differences. For both, pain can be complex with unfamiliar presentations and the pains hard to assign to known disorders. For many survivors, pain and associated disability are overshadowed by psychological distress, often by post-traumatic stress symptoms that can be frightening and isolating. Pain medicine in war can exemplify best techniques and organisation, reducing suffering, but many military veterans have persistent pain that undermines their readjustment. By contrast, survivors of torture rarely have any acute health care; their risk for developing chronic pain is high. Even when settled as refugees in a well-resourced country, their access to healthcare may be restricted. Recent evidence is reviewed that informs assessment and treatment of pain in both groups, with the broader context of psychological distress addressed at the end. Clinical and research implications are briefly outlined.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Special Considerations for the Treatment of Pain from Torture and War |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40140-016-0187-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40140-016-0187-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Military veterans, Refugees, Trauma, Post-traumatic stress, PTSD, Battlefield, Acute pain, Chronic pain, Persistent pain, Injury, Rehabilitation. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538711 |
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