Chronic Pain Syndrome...It does not have to sour your life

Chronic pain often leads to frustration and disability. When all conservative traditional and alternative treatment regimens fail, many patients are seeking relief from pain clinics. You can now find these clinics in most cities. Doctors with multiple medical specialties, comprehensively look at patients, and make combined treatment recommendations that not only relieve pain, but also provide patients a better opportunity for restoring normal life activities.

Some 65 million Americans suffer from painful disabilities each year. Pain medicine, a specialty recognized by the American Medical Association, involves prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of painful disorders. Physicians specializing in pain medicine often act as educators and serve as consultants to primary care providers. They may prescribe medication and rehabilitative services, as well as perform pain-relieving procedures and counsel patients and their families.

A comprehensive pain management clinic routinely perform such procedures as:

• Epidural steroid blocks
• Stellate ganglion blocks
• Intravenous regional sympathetic blocks
• Trigger point injections
• Diagnostic and therapeutic blocks of nerves or plexi
• Epidural blood patches

Outcome statistics have been promising, suggesting that pain clinics are effective, and help many chronic pain suffers return to a more normal life.