When Should I Consider Pain Management?
Most people at one time or another have experienced pain of some sort. In most cases their discomfort subsides in a few hours to a few days. Unfortunately, for many people, pain simply does not go away. The pain that they suffer from not only lasts longer, it more importantly affects every aspect of their lives. Activities that most people take for granted—walking, doing household tasks, buying groceries, or working— become painful and sometimes impossible chores.
Pain management is a multidisciplinary, multi-modality approach to help alleviate a person’s chronic pain and its impact on his or her personal and professional life. At New York Pain Management, we deliver a complete program of unique, state-ofthe-art pain control techniques to help you advance your functional ability, improve your emotional well-being, and optimize your quality of life. O ur multi-disciplinar y team includes physicians who are trained in anesthesiology and physical and rehabilitative medicine with sub-specialty training and board certification in pain management. At New York Pain Management, our job as pain physicians is to create an individualized care plan to manage and treat your pain. With pain, it is important to identify the cause—from muscle or nerve injury to certain metabolic imbalances. These different causes can have very similar signs and symptoms. Our job is to narrow down, from over a hundred different possible sources of pain, the one or two actual causes of your pain.
It is important to emphasize that everyone experiences pain differently. Often what works for one patient may have little benefit for someone else with a similar condition. In essence, pain management looks at the patient as a whole and tries to find the most suitable treatment options for his or her specific type of pain. Our multi-modal approach includes procedures such as epidural injections, rhizotomies, and spinal cord stimulators. Furthermore, we may recommend specific therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, or a variety of different medications as adjunctive treatment options. Your pain is unique and individual–thus the treatment of pain is also unique and individualized. There is no one size fits all treatment. At New York Pain Management, our physicians will give you an individualized plan and guidance every step of the way to a more fulfilling and more functional life.
New York Pain Management has board certified pain physicians working for you. We have locations in Clifton Park and Queensbury and more information can be found on our website at https://www.nypainfree.com.
