Our bodies experience a number of different types of pain. It is the medical discipline of pain management which is supposed to reduce the amount of pain one has. Acute pain is usually the type of pain suffered from a trauma. Pain management in this case would be the administration of drugs for a small period of time. Chronic pain management deals with a reoccurrence of pain which can be difficult to diagnose or treat.
For this pain management a person may be on various medications over the course of treatment. Pain management is considered a multidisciplinary approach for a variety of different conditions. Psychology is another type of management for pain that is not based on a physical symptom, but thought to be in the mind.