Supporting Research in Pain Management for Veterans and Military Service Members
Supporting Research in Pain Management for Veterans and Military Service Members

Pain Management History Time Line

As the Pain Management Collaboratory and its partners focus on nonpharmacological approaches to pain management and other comorbid conditions, it is important to understand how pain has been understood and treated throughout documented human history.  Scroll through this time line to see the era’s philosophy on pain, and the treatments, if any.

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Sources

R. Sabatowski, D. Schafer, S. M. Kasper, H. Brunsch and L. Radbruch, “ Pain Treatment: A Historical Overview”, Current Pharmaceutical Design (2004) 10: 701. https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612043452974

Meldrum ML. A Capsule History of Pain Management. JAMA. 2003;290(18):2470–2475. doi:10.1001/jama.290.18.2470

Roberts CS. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia. In: Walker HK, Hall WD, Hurst JW, editors. Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations. 3rd edition. Boston: Butterworths; 1990. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK715/

Ramey, D. and Buell, P. D. (2004), A true history of acupuncture. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 9: 269-273. doi:10.1211/fact.2004.00244

Katz, Joel, and Brittany N Rosenbloom. “The golden anniversary of Melzack and Wall’s gate control theory of pain: Celebrating 50 years of pain research and management.” Pain research & management vol. 20,6 (2015): 285-6. doi:10.1155/2015/865487