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e-Health and chronic pain management: Current status and developments
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E-health advances being explored with chronic conditions other than pain that may provide opportunities for developments in chronic pain management are summarized and critically appraise current technological developments as they might apply to pain.Abstract:
There are significant geographic, economic, and educational barriers for patients with chronic pain accessing evidence-based treatments. Recent developments in computing and sensing technologies have led to applications facilitating the management of other long-term health conditions such as diabetes, stroke, heart failure, and depression. Technology could also offer promising solutions to the management of chronic pain conditions and the current barriers of access. A number of technologies are being explored worldwide with a variety of goals. In what follows we focus largely on electronicbased innovations offered as part of a solution for the management of chronic pain. For ease of narration we adopt the term ‘e-health’ to encompass developments labelled variously as ‘telemedicine’, ‘telehealth’, ‘telecare’, ‘assistive technology’, ‘cybertherapy’. We aim to (i) introduce and scope the developing field, (ii) review the extant projects in pain, drawing on basic science, clinical case studies and where available treatment intervention trials, (iii) summarize e-health advances being explored with chronic conditions other than pain that may provide opportunities for developments in chronic pain management, (iv) critically appraise current technological developments as they might apply to pain, and (v) discuss challenges to further development.read more
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