Pain Management in Primary Care

Can the exciting developments in the clinical science of pain medicine make a difference in the trenches of primary care, where the public health problem of chronic pain must be solved? Like all specialists, we should strive to demonstrate the relevance of our specialty – pain medicine – to health problems in the general population. This process starts with clinical trials, in which the beneficial effects of the treatment being tested is compared against sham treatments, called placebos. For these studies to be able to tell us...More