Multidisciplinary approach in neurotic head and back ache. Clinical contribution

: Stress is laid on the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of pain. Reference is made to personal experience, during which the presence of a psychiatric specialist in the team permitted the discovery of 4% of patients with pain of a purely psychological origin in a series of 300 subjects, together with 10% with pain of mixed origin. Attention is drawn to the usefulness of centering treatment on recognition and evaluation of the psychological component, and on treatment with antidepressive drugs in association with classic antalgic procedures.