Pain therapy redefined: Rems-Murr clinic opens the modern section!

Pain therapy redefined: Rems-Murr clinic opens the modern section!

Winnenden, Deutschland - On May 2, 2025, the new section pain therapy on the Rems-Murr Clinic Winnenden was ceremoniously opened. This facility is aimed specifically at patients with chronic pain who often suffer from a long medical history and often do not experience any sustainable improvement. Chronic pain not only physically burden those affected, but also lead to social withdrawal and a generally weakened quality of life. The medical director of the clinic for anesthesia, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and pain therapy, Dr. Heiner Lange, explained the importance of this new form of therapy.

Among the invited guests were key people of the Rems-Murr clinics, including Dr. Isabel Staubach and Dr. Alexander Tuczek, who act as senior physicians in pain therapy. Also Dr. Richard Sigel, district administrator and chairman of the supervisory board of the clinic, as well as André Mertel, managing director of the Rems-Murr clinics, emphasized the need for an innovative approach to the treatment of pain patients in their speeches.

target groups and theory

The newly introduced interdisciplinary multimodal therapy, which has been offered in the Rems-Murr Clinic since March 2025, aims to give the patient with chronic pain syndromes again. This therapy method combines various approaches to treat both physical and psychological aspects of pain. According to Rems-murr-kliniken.de this therapy requires close cooperation between specialists from different disciplines, including doctors, psychologists, therapists and social workers.

Treatment is often carried out in day clinics or fully inpatient and can take between one week and four weeks. The interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (IMST) has established itself as a gold standard in the treatment of severe chronic pain. Scientific findings show that multimodal programs lead to higher return rates to the workplace than conventional treatments that often only prescribe pain relievers or antidepressants.

importance of psychosocial factors

A central aspect of pain therapy is to take into account psychosocial risk factors such as family stress or fears about physical processes. The term "bio-psycho-social pain" describes the interactions between physical, mental and social influences on pain. These findings are based on many years of research and the development of Ronald Melzack and Patrick D. Wall in 1965, which illustrates the complex nature of pain perception.

Treatment not only aims to relieve pain, but also to strengthen the physical, psychological and social skills of the patients. The "functional restoration approach", which was developed by Tom G. Mayer and Robert J. Gatchel in 1985, is an example of how physical rehabilitation is closely linked to psychosocial interventions.

The interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial, since many treatments in the past have been carried out in practices of general and specialists without looking at the holistic image. According to the paingesellschaft.de , unsuccessful treatment approaches have often only led to the prescription of pain relievers, while more active therapy approaches provide more effective results.

The Rems-Murr clinics use their new pain therapy section to take an important step in improving the quality of care for patients with chronic pain and thus contribute to the further development of pain therapy in the region. Further information about multimodal pain therapy is available on the website of the Rems-Murr clinics.