Polypharmacy treatment approaches to the psychiatric and somatic comorbidities found in patients with chronic pain

Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2005 Mar;84(3 Suppl):S56-63.

Abstract

This review outlines the following: psychiatric and somatic comorbidities associated with chronic pain and their relationship to polypharmacy treatment, indications for polypharmacy in chronic pain, criteria for rational polypharmacy, basic principles of polypharmacy for pain-associated comorbidity, and, based on the above, psychopharmacologic polypharmacy treatment approaches to these chronic pain-associated comorbidities.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Comorbidity
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Mental Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Mood Disorders / drug therapy
  • Mood Disorders / epidemiology
  • Pain / drug therapy*
  • Pain / epidemiology*
  • Polypharmacy*