Understanding Pain Management
Living with pain can be a lonely, frustrating and depressing experience. Add to that inadequate patient education and ineffective treatments and many sufferers become hopeless and distraught. A pain clinic with highly experienced pain doctors using various treatment and medication modalities can dramatically improve the quality of life of these patients.
Pain medication and a straightforward treatment course works well for most patients with acute pain which has a limited time period of severity. With long-term chronic pain a variety of pain management strategies may need to be tried, often including psychological treatment. These sufferers may also self-medicate with alcohol which may
seem to ease the pain for a while but will ultimately only make the suffering increase with it's high potential for addiction and increase in existing depression.
Pain Clinic doctors work closely with your primary care physician to develop individualized treatment plans and prescribe pain medication. They include anesthesiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, and orthopedic surgeons. Practitioners who report to the doctors in the pain clinic are physical or rehabilitation therapists, orthopedists, chiropractors, massage therapists and more, depending on the breadth of services offered.
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