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Theresa Mallick-Searle

Holistic Pain Management in Pregnancy

What RNs, APRNs, Midwives and Mental Health Professionals Need to Know

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Theresa Mallick-Searle

Division of Pain Medicine, Stanford Health Care, Redwood City, CA, USA

ISBN 978-3-031-06321-3 e-ISBN 978-3-031-06322-0

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Preface

In conducting my research for this book, along with my personal experiences as a registered nurse for over 25 years and a nurse practitioner in pain management for over 20, caring for patients with chronic and acute pain during pregnancy, I discovered a real need in the community to provide a practical education guide for the advanced practice registered nurse, bedside and clinic nurse, and Midwife. My objective is to provide the reader with the most up-to-date clinical information available on assessment and management of pain during pregnancy, applying a nurturing and holistic approach to the patient. An overview to the scope of the need, including a discussion on the use of opioids and the incidence of opioid use disorder will be covered. Things that you can do to help your patient in preparation for a healthy pregnancy will be reviewed, including optimization of diet, nutrition, fitness, mental health, and stabilization of chronic pain conditions. A few of the most common pain conditions that can present or worsen with pregnancy will be evaluated, including low back pain, pelvic girdle pain, migraine, and fibromyalgia.

Theresa Mallick-Searle

Redwood City, CA, USA

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Cynthia Belew

Valerie W. Jackson , Iulia Gambro Irina Ivan and Karen Choe

Laurel Short and Shannon DeSalvo

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T. Mallick-Searle (ed.) Holistic Pain Management in Pregnancy https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06322-0_1

1. Introduction to Pain in Pregnancy

Theresa Mallick-Searle

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Division of Pain Medicine, Stanford Health Care, Redwood City, CA, USA

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Pain assessment Pain management Pregnancy

Pain is as common to being human as breathing. Pain is a physiologic response to the exposure of noxious stimuli that is built into our DNA [].

A representation of Neuromechanisms of pain. The process involves injury, transmission along mixed fiber neurons, transmission along the spine up to the brain, descending pathway, and perception in the brain.

Fig. 1.1

Neuromechanisms of pain. (Adapted from CORE-REMS: Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits. WWW.CORE-REMS.ORG )

To best set the stage for a robust discussion about pain in pregnancy, we will spend some time here defining some basic concepts in pain. Pain is generally defined as being acute or chronic. Acute pain is pain that is anticipated, generally has a known cause, and is short-lived. Chronic pain is maintained pain that general outlasts its protective benefit, often has multiple causes, is associated with much emotional suffering and disability, is ongoing or recurrent, and continues beyond the anticipated time of tissue healing (36 months) [].

Table 1.1

Types of pain []

Nociceptive/inflammatory	Nociplastic	Neuropathic
Pain in response to injury or stimuli; typically acute	Pain arising from altered nociceptive function; typically chronic	Pain that develops when the nervous system is damaged; typically chronic
Examples: postoperative pain, sports injuries, arthritis, sickle cell disease, mechanical low back pain	Examples: fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, nonspecific low back pain	Examples: postherpetic neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, distal polyneuropathy, neuropathic low back pain

After 40 years, the IASP introduced a revised definition of pain, in the hopes that it would lead to improved assessment and management of those with pain. The new definition is: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage []. This revised definition was put forth to try and encapsulate the subjective and objective nature of pain. A reflection that:

• Pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological, and social factors.

• Pain and nociception are different phenomena. Pain cannot be inferred solely from activity in sensory neurons.

• Through their life experiences, individuals learn the concept of pain.

• A persons report of an experience as pain should be respected.

• Although pain usually serves an adaptive role, it may have adverse effects on function and social and psychological well-being.

• Verbal description is only one of several behaviors to express pain; inability to communicate does not negate the possibility that a human or a nonhuman animal experiences pain [].

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