Delia Cinteză *, Maria Cristina Constantinescu **, Daniela Poenaru ***
* Delia Cinteză – medic primar, șef de lucrări, UMF Carol Davila, Catedra de Recuperare Medicală
** Dr. Maria Cristina Constantinescu – asis. univ., UMF Carol Davila, Catedra de Farmacologie
*** Dr. Daniela Poenaru – medic specialist, asis. univ., UMF Carol Davila, Catedra de Recuperare Medicală
Abstract
Analgesic adjuvants in chronic pain syndrome
The pain lasting longer than three months has to be designated as chronic pain syndrome. Sometimes there is an underlying pathology, like rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, myofascial syndrome, phantom limb syndrome, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, cancer. But there are a lot of cases with long lasting pain even after the nociceptiv stimulus was removed. Management of chronic pain includes some adjuvant medication groups like tricyclic antidepressants, anticonvulsivants, miorelaxants and antispastics. Their mechanism of action in pain treatment is different from the one of clasic analgesics, non-steroidals antiinflammatories or narcotic analgesics.