Abstract
Acute pain is a major challenge worldwide, and chronic pain poses a massive disease burden. Pain control has been a neglected area of governmental concern. This article is recommended to be read by all anesthesiologists, neurosurgeons and any other physicians who involved with pain management.
Keywords
Anesthesia and analgesia
Pain
Illness burden
Pain clinics
Regional anesthesia
Copyright
© 2011, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.