Abordagem ao paciente com dor crônica: grupo multiprofissional de dor crônica como alternativa ao tratamento medicamentoso no programa saúde da família Abdalla Felício no município de Ponte Nova - Minas Gerais

Abstract

Chronic pains represent a problem with difficult solution because its limiting and incapacitating character. Also, the fact that it usually uses symptoms relief therapy, generally not fighting the problems origin. Many of these patients, elderly, with other comorbidities like arterial hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, that already uses medications for these conditions, often get to self-medication to relief the pains, which can generate other complications, such as gastrointestinal or hepatic injuries, decrease of the pain threshold with consequent increase of painful cases. The situational diagnostics of the Family Health Program Abdalla Felício identified a great number of patients with chronic pains. This study find to elaborate an action plan to get the decrease of the number of consults of spontaneous demand about those patients with chronic pains, with this bringing better life quality to them. The plan is based on the Situational Strategic Planning and on bibliographic research with these descriptors: chronic pain, family health strategy and life quality. With the proposed actions its expected to minimized the chronic pains of the patients and, that way, improve their life quality.