**2. Physical analgesia: methods**

Pain management is very important for the successful rehabilitation. Different members of our multi-disciplinary multi-professional rehabilitation team are included in the pain treatment. The role of the medical doctors—specialists in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is crucial in this process [12, 13].

Physical analgesia is the application of physical factors for pain management. The anti-pain effect of physical modalities is significant [2, 10, 14]. Physical analgesia has not side effects and can be combined with other therapies [15].

In physical analgesia, we apply several physical modalities (**Table 1**).



*Physical Analgesia: Methods, Mechanisms and Algorithms for Post-Operative Pain DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.111590*

**Table 1.** *Methods of Physical analgesia.*

