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SUBMITTER: de C Williams AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5124052 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
de C Williams Amanda C AC Baird Emma E
Current anesthesiology reports 20161025 4
Pain care for survivors of torture and of war shows similarities and marked differences. For both, pain can be complex with unfamiliar presentations and the pains hard to assign to known disorders. For many survivors, pain and associated disability are overshadowed by psychological distress, often by post-traumatic stress symptoms that can be frightening and isolating. Pain medicine in war can exemplify best techniques and organisation, reducing suffering, but many military veterans have persist ...[more]