Der Merkurstab | November/Dezember 2018 | 16,00 Euro (inkl. Mwst., zzgl. Versandkosten)
Artikel | Treatment and rehabilitation for patients with chronic pain and multimorbidity Treatment and rehabilitation for patients with chronic pain and multimorbidity |
Autor | David McGavin |
Seiten | 437-443 |
Volume | 71 |
Zusammenfassung
A small National Health Service (NHS) community
pain management clinic has shown significant clinical
improvements, cost effectiveness and substantial
savings in a highly disabled group of patients. The key
to these outcomes appears to have been the way in
which patients were enabled to become active and
exert their own resourcefulness through anthroposophic
interventions. The contribution of anthroposophic
medicine to self-management has been comprehensively
outlined in its concepts, evidence and
patient perspectives. This paper sets out to explain
how adverse clinical and social circumstances may be
overcome when the rehabilitation method engages
patients’ own experiences, interpretations and initiative
in a necessarily ‘bottom-up’ approach.