Victimization and pain

Małgorzata K. Szerla; Dorota E. Ortenburger

doi:10.5114/ms.2013.39988

eISSN: 2300-6722
ISSN: 1899-1874

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Victimization and pain

Małgorzata K. Szerla

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Dorota E. Ortenburger

Studia Medyczne 2013; 29 (4): 355–359

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ms.2013.39988

Online publish date: 2013/12/30

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Pain has several causes. It can be caused not only by operative trauma or cancer. Some patients suffer from pain as a result of being victims of violence. The aim of the study was to introduce diagnosis and treatment of pain problems in patients who are victims of violence, from a physician’s and a psychologist’s common perspective. Physical pain-related primary effects experienced by the victims of domestic violence go far beyond the results which are noticeable directly and confirmed visually in a forensic examination. In the present paper we introduce an ‘invisible’ group of secondary effects of violence. They appear in time, often after several years, in the form of a variety of psychosomatic disorders. The body is devastated insidiously and the secondary effects are visible as vegetative symptoms, a variety of psychosomatic disorders and pain, difficult to diagnose and treat.

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Victimization and pain

Małgorzata K. Szerla , Dorota E. Ortenburger

violence, victim, psychosomatic disorder, pain

Małgorzata K. Szerla

,

Dorota E. Ortenburger