Will a pain management specialist just treat the pain or will he/she try to find the cause of the pain?

Pain management: A pain management specialist will hopefully identify the cause and offer a treatment plan that can alleviate the pain and prevent exacerbation attacks.

Both: The best pain groups will comprehensively address the history of your chronic pain condition, review diagnostic tests and or order new ones, perform a detailed pertinent physical examination, then design an individualized treatment plan which can include injections, braces, creams, medications, physical therapy and more.

Pain management: Pain management doctors are trained to diagnose and treat painful conditions. Pain management doctors utilizes different approaches for pain such as accupunture, physical therapy, medication .... Interventional pain management doctor has additional training in interventions such as nerve blocks, epidural steroid injections, spinal cord stimulation .....