Building a comprehensive pain management team involves bringing together specialists from many disciplines who address the physical, functional, and emotional aspects of acute and chronic discomfort. By coordinating care among providers, you can establish an effective, personalized treatment plan.
Pain can result from a variety of injuries and conditions. Pain can also result from treatments for conditions and injuries, or it can be the main feature of a condition. Acute pain can last a short time and go away when you heal while chronic pain can last for months or in some cases even years. Some pain just won’t go away, but the goal of pain management is to improve quality of life. Pain management can help regulate pain with medications, procedures, exercises, and therapy. Pain management specialists might recommend one approach or a combination of several approaches to prevent, reduce, or relieve pain.
Who can benefit from pain management and putting together a pain management team? Those suffering from arthritis and muscle and joint injuries and autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease, lupus, and fibromyalgia are likely to benefit from the expertise of a pain management team. Your pain management team can help with burns, cancer, pinched nerves, chronic pain disorders like central pain syndrome, circulatory disorders, endometriosis, headaches, migraines, and spine or spinal cord related conditions or injuries.
Who should you see for pain management? Although the answer to that question might depend on the source and type of your pain, there are several health care professionals who are ready to work together to help alleviate your discomfort.
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