CENTRE FOR PAIN MEDICINE NOTTWIL
Diagnosis and therapy of all types of pain
Pain is a fundamental human experience and part of our day-to-day life. We make a distinction between acute and chronic pain. Acute pain is a warning signal for imminent physical damage or a sign of acute disease. Chronic pain has lost this function and represents an independent and frequently extremely complex disease.
The Centre for Pain Medicine stands for the highest level of care for the diagnosis and treatment of all types of pain in accordance with international criteria.
Difference between acute pain and chronic pain
Acute pain
We basically make a distinction between acute pain and chronic pain. We are all aware of acute pain, for example when we cut ourselves or get too close to a source of heat. This means that acute pain has a protective function and, by definition, recedes within a manageable period of time with appropriate treatment.
Chronic pain
Chronic pain, on the other hand, has lost this function and become an independent disease. There is not a one-size-fits-all answer to why acute pain becomes chronic pain, but it is clear that, in addition to physical factors, emotional/psychological and social factors also play a part. This is why we speak of the biopsychosocial model of chronic pain.
Treatment of chronic pain
As a consequence, the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain must be customised and cover all affected levels. In many cases, purely somatic (physical) treatment (e.g. with medicine or injections) is not productive and is frustrating in the long term.
Interdisciplinary team
To do justice to this fact, the team of specialists from various disciplines at the Centre for Pain Medicine is there to ensure comprehensive treatment that is customised to the patient and to the specific situation. The patient is the main focus of our work at all times. Active cooperation and the willingness to want to change something about one's own situation are essential preconditions for an increase in quality of life in the medium and long term.
Understanding pain
Pain is a complex sensation that is similar to a feeling. Pain is always subjective, cannot be measured, cannot be proven and cannot be refuted. Since the 1970s there has been an official definition by the International Association for the Study of Pain that does justice to acute and chronic pain as well as to the biopsychosocial model of disease.
Management of the Centre for Pain Medicine
Treatments we offer
At SPC, pain specialists from a very wide range of fields work together in one team. We look at your pain with all its facets and effects on you in your environment, and work together with you to find a treatment programme tailored to you.
Interventional pain management
Selective numbing or treatment of pain
Conservative pain therapy
All therapeutic measures with the exception of interventional or surgical procedures
Pain physiotherapy
Achieving improved quality of life through positive experiences with movement
Pain therapy based on complementary medicine
Various therapy procedures such as acupuncture, medical hypnosis and neural therapy
Head and facial pain clinic
Interdisciplinary headache therapy
Neurological diagnosis and therapy
Diagnosis and therapy of neural pain
Pain psychiatry
Psychiatric diagnosis and therapy
Pain psychotherapy
Identifying psychological diseases and symptoms
Information registration/online registration
Training and congresses
Since 1999, the Centre for Pain Medicine Nottwil has organised regular international, national and regional congresses, workshops as well as training and continuing education events.
Research activities
Our interdisciplinary team plus national and international cooperative partnerships allow us to carry out scientific research activities. Have a look at some our research projects.
Centre for Pain Medicine team
The experts at the Centre for Pain Medicine are specialised in the diagnosis and therapy of all types of pain. Meet the interdisciplinary team.
Downloads
Flyers to download (in German)
Our offers
- Flyer Bewältigung chronischer Bauchschmerzen (PDF, 65.50 KB)
- Flyer Biofeedback (PDF, 60.28 KB)
- Flyer multikulturelle Schmerzbewaeltigung (PDF, 61.81 KB)
- Flyer progressive Muskelentspannung (PDF, 57.83 KB)
- Flyer Schmerzbewältigungsgruppe für Menschen im Rollstuhl (PDF, 65.09 KB)
- Flyer Schmerzbewaeltigungsgruppe (PDF, 58.99 KB)
- Flyer Schmerzwoche (PDF, 69.53 KB)
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