What is Pain Management? | HEALTHdrum
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by Bert Vorstman | Sep 18, 2021 | Pain | 0 comments
Pain management is a medical specialty devoted to discovering the cause of your chronic pain and offering treatment options to improve your quality of life.
Perform evaluations to diagnose the cause of your pain.
Undertake imaging studies such as an MRI.
Try non-surgical treatment options.
Prescribe medications such as anti-inflammatories, relaxants or anti-depressants.
Undertake more definitive treatments such as epidurals, nerve blocks, radio-frequency ablations, spinal cord stimulation or neuromodulation options.
Conditions causing chronic pain.
Post laminectomy syndromes.
Arthritic back and neck pain.
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) / complex-regional pain syndromes (CRPS).
Focal or generalized cancer pain.
Peripheral entrapment neuropathies /neuromas.
Post stroke and central pain syndromes / spinal cord injury pain syndrome / failed back surgery syndromes.
Arnold’s Disease.