RT Book, Section A1 Walk, David A2 Mitra, Raj SR Print(0) ID 1182778858 T1 Taxonomy of Pain Systems T2 Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071793339 LK accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182778858 RD 2024/03/29 AB IN LIGHT OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC, THE MEDICAL community is paying increased attention to pain. The annual volume of publications found under a PubMed search for “chronic pain” doubled in the decade between 2006 and 2016 and increased nearly fivefold in the 20-year period prior to 2016. In 2011 the Institute of Medicine published a landmark assessment entitled “Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research,” that outlined current shortcomings in pain.1 Most recently the consequences of opioid use and misuse have garnered substantial attention.2