Is Pain Management Right for You?

Pain is a complex problem that may require treatment by a pain medicine specialist.  Millions of people suffer pain every year at great personal cost.  According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.

If you find you cannot safely control your pain using over-the-counter medications, or have failed to find relief from other treatments and practitioners, you should consider pain management.  For most patients, pain management is the way to regain function and improve quality of life.

There are many different physical and neurological disorders that contribute to pain, and pain management can provide you with more advanced care specifically aimed at controlling your pain.  Some of the pain-causing disorders treated by pain management specialists include:

• Arachnoiditis
• Arthritis (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis)
• Back and neck pain
• Headaches originating from the neck
• Cancer pain
• Failed back surgery
• Fibromyalgia
• Radicular pain (cervical or lumbar radiculopathy)
• Shingles (postherpetic neuralgia)
• Spinal Stenosis
• Spinal tumor
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Vertebral compression fracture

If you would like to know more, please contact our office to set up an appointment to discuss your pain with our caring pain specialists.