Did You Visit Your Pain Management Specialist Today?
Pain is an unpleasant feeling or sensation caused by an injury or illness that causes sheer discomfort and, at times and becomes severe, also causes physical and mental changes. A superficial injury causes slight pain, but if the pain gets severe due to nerve damage, it causes chronic pain and lasts quite long. Pain may be restricted to certain areas like the knee, joints, stomach, or head or spread throughout the body due to some ailment or fever. Most of the time, your healthcare advisor examines your body and suggests tests such as X-Ray and MRI to look for the cause of pain. This is the time when a pain management specialist comes into the picture. Your pain management specialist develops a treatment plan to manage, relieve and reduce pain and help patients return to everyday activities by using minimum medication and avoiding surgeries, if any. These specialists are primarily medical or osteopathic doctors who are physiatrists or anesthesiologists by specialization and trea