THE PAIN CLINIC

The pain clinic is any group of medical and/or health professionals who are treating pain symptomatically. These clinics may be “open”, where any doctor may refer patients, or “closed”, where only specialists may refer patients. The patients are referred because of intractable pain, defined as pain of at least one month's duration, which has not been relieved by conventional techniques. Collaboration between the various specialists involved with the patients and between the other specialist clinics is of paramount importance