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What can they do in pain management?

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Pain Management: There are basically two facets to pain management. Acute pain management, generally in a hospital where we use medication and anesthetics to control severe surgical pain. And chronic pain management in an office setting where medications and injections are used to diagnose and control chronic pain issues.

Answered 2/23/2014

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Dr. Satvinder Dhesi answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Pain Management: 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.

Answered 12/19/2019

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Dr. Brian Le answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Pain management: Pain management doctor utilizes different approaches for pain. It might include accupunture, physical therapy, medication, injections .... Interventional pain management doctor has additional training in interventions such as nerve blocks, epidural steroid injections, spinal cord stimulation .....

Answered 1/17/2014

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Dr. Ron Jones answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

In this letter link: http://www.asipp.org/documents/sent-lettertobrucebodakenceoblueshieldofcaliforniareepiduralsteroidinjections222012.pdf.

Answered 3/3/2016

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Dr. Romanth Waghmarae answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Pain management: Pain management is thew specialty that is involved in decreasing or eliminating pain. It not only involved medication (if needed), but also psychology, chiropractic, pt, procedures (nerve blocks), spinal procedures etc.. The ultimate goal is to improve quality of life while reducing pain. Remember pain may not be totally eliminated.

Answered 5/28/2014

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Dr. Brian Le answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Pain management: Pain management as a discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis/treatment of pain disorders. It is usually a multidisciplinary approach to treat patients suffering from acute and/or chronic pain. The treatment might include physical therapy, exercise, medication, injections ...

Answered 12/9/2013

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Pain Management : "Pain management" has different meaning depending on who you speak to. It may mean medication management, physical medicine & rehabilitation, injection procedures, acupuncture, holistic approaches, cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc. A comprehensive pain management clinic will attempt to integrate one or more of these modalities to optimize outcome. It can get quite complex.

Answered 6/5/2014

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Dr. Thomas Miller answered

Specializes in Anesthesiology

Pain management : Pain management is the practise of controlling pain when there is no cure but interfering with a persons function and quality of life. There are many tools to control chronic pain and should be individualized. Chronic pain is pain that persists long after healing has occurred

Answered 12/4/2014

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Comprehensive care.: Ideally, it is a center where you can have a medical professional diagnose the underlying cause of your chronic pain patterns and offer a variety of treatment options to try and get your pain under control, to be able to enjoy life more and function better.

Answered 12/15/2015

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