[Compliance problems in chronic pain].

The aim of this paper is to focus on a medical issue which is not held in due consideration in Italy. In chronic pain control and management, specialists may advise at various times drugs, physical therapies, behavioral modification techniques, and not demolitive antinociceptive procedures. Quite often patients do not follow medical prescriptions as one should expect, especially if they are not inpatients. The Authors examine this clinical problem known as compliance and try to explain the reasons for this behaviour from different points of view.