Dr. Yolitzi Guadalupe Herrera Rodríguez

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PAIN MEDICINE: A discipline dedicated to studying, researching, and treating pain in all its forms and preventing the physical and psychological suffering of patients, improving their quality of life, including any illness capable of producing pain, whether acute or chronic, as well as pain from cancer. Among the conditions we algologists treat are the following: -Low back pain. -Sciatica. -Radiculopathy. -Diabetic neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, HIV-related neuropathy. -Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. -Cancer pain. -Acute and persistent postoperative pain. -Fibromyalgia. -Complex regional pain syndrome. -Phantom limb pain. -Ischemic pain (arterial insufficiency) -Headaches. -Pain from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. -Neck pain. -Failed back surgery syndrome pain. -Fracture pain. PALLIATIVE MEDICINE: A discipline responsible for relieving suffering as well as providing the best possible quality of life at its end for those patients who have a serious, life-threatening illness that affects their well-being as well as that of their family. The main goals of palliative care are: 1. Managing the symptoms that put the patient and/or their family members in a situation of suffering. 2. Establishing treatment goals according to the patient's preferences for their life at its end. 3. Maintaining communication between the patient, their family or caregivers, and the entire medical team involved in treating their illness. 4. Providing psychosocial and spiritual support to the patient and their family members.

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