Pain management is a branch of medicine that applies science to the reduction of pain.
It covers a wide spectrum of conditions, including neuropathic pain,sciatica, postoperative pain, and more.
Pain management is a rapidly growing medical specialty that takes a multi-disciplinary approach to treating all kinds of pain.
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Your healthcare provider may refer you to pain management if your pain is ongoing or significant.
Other medical specialties represented in pain management are anesthesiology, neurosurgery, and internal medicine.
This allows for the program of science, and the latest advances in medicine to relieve your pain.
The goal of pain management is to minimize pain, rather than eliminate it.
This is because quite often it is not possible to completely do away with it.
Two other goals are to improve function and increase the quality of life.
These three goals go hand-in-hand.
A chronic pain rehab program is a better choice for these people," he says.
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