@Article{Szerla2013,
journal="Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne",
issn="1899-1874",
volume="29",
number="4",
year="2013",
title="Victimization and pain",
abstract="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.",
author="Szerla, Małgorzata K.
and Ortenburger, Dorota E.",
pages="355--359",
doi="10.5114/ms.2013.39988",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ms.2013.39988"
}