Conservative pain medicine

In medical terms, “conservative therapy” covers all therapeutic measures apart from interventional or surgical procedures. In the context of pain management, this includes, for example, the large field of medication-based therapy, but also non-medication-based therapy (e.g. provision of an orthosis) and complementary medicine.

In principle, conservative therapy also includes physiotherapy, i.e. movement therapy, and psychotherapy. As these two forms of therapy are of particular significance in the context of chronic pain, they are listed separately and not included in the list below.

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Although medication also plays its part in the treatment of chronic pain, its use must always be critically questioned. In addition, the active ingredients used for chronic pain often differ from those prescribed for acute pain. Opiates do not play a significant part in long-term use and “classic” analgesics, such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, should also only be used for a limited amount of time. Instead, psychotropic drugs (such as antidepressants) are used as co-analgesics.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) therapy is available as non-medication-based therapy, in particular in the case of muscular pain. Using electrodes attached with sticky pads and a small stimulation device, patients experience a pleasant tingling. After specialist instructions from our nursing team, a stimulator can be taken home to test the therapeutic effect and, if the test phase is successful, a prescription is issued so that patients can get a device of their own.
TENS therapy allows those affected to be able to react independently to increased pain within their own home.