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Because perception of pain is part of the nervous system's function, specialists in both of these areas of practice can pursue certification in pain management. Modern Healthcare found average salaries ranging from $226,630 to $305,000 per year for neurologists.
1. A pain management specialist is a physician with special training in evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of all different types of pain. Pain is actually a wide spectrum of disorders including acute pain, chronic pain and cancer pain and sometimes a combination of these.. The best way to be referred to a pain management specialist is through your primary care physician. Most pain physicians work closely with their patients' primary care physicians to insure good communication, which in turn helps provide the optimum treatment for their patients.