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Are you looking for answers to questions you may have about our pain center?

This section of our website is intended to assist you in answering practical questions that you may have concerning our pain center, our ability to provide pain care and service for your specific needs, and general questions concerning pain managment. If you don't find the answer your searching for please feel free to contact our staff to assist you with questions not addressed here on this website.

What is interventional pain management?

 

Interventional pain management is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatments.

 

What are interventional pain management techniques?

 

Interventional pain management techniques are minimally invasive procedures including, percutaneous precision needle placement, with placement of drugs in targeted areas or ablation of targeted nerves; and some surgical techniques such as laser or endoscopic diskectomy, intrathecal infusion pumps and spinal cord simulators, for the diagnosis and management of chronic, persistent or intractable pain.

 

Who are doctors specializing in interventional pain management?

 

Pain specialists come from various primary specialties with advanced training and expertise. They mainly are anesthesiologists, physical medical rehabilitation specialists and neurologists. However, they may include neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and interventional radiologists.

 

What is the difference between acute pain and chronic pain?

 

Acute pain is pain of a short, limited duration, usually the result of an injury, surgery or medical illness. Acute pain often goes away with the healing process.Chronic pain continues for longer periods of time, sometimes even long time after the healing of the original injury is expected to have occurred. Chronic pain is also associated with frustration, depression and anxiety.Treatments for acute and chronic pain are often quite different.