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Pain is also the primary cause of disability in the United States. The NCHS estimates that as many as one in four Americans suffer pain lasting longer than twenty-four hours. Pain can be a side effect of cancer treatment or other type of treatment, can come with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety, or can be a chronic disease in and of itself. One problem doctors have in treating pain, is that it is completely subjective. Pain can’t be measured or judged by any criteria other than the patient’s own experience, although innovative ways to measure pain are currently being studied.
Your Options for Chronic Pain Treatment
There are a variety of options for the treatment of chronic pain, including the following:
- There are a variety of options for the treatment of chronic pain, including the following:
- Prescription medications - Medications can be effective in controlling chronic pain, although nerve pain can be resistant to some medications. Many who attempt to take them for pain experience drowsiness or nausea, making it very difficult to work or engage in normal activities.
- Other Medications - Many painful conditions are accompanied by muscle tightness or spasms, which can be treated with muscle relaxants. For chronic pain, muscle relaxants may be most effective when combined with other procedures.
- Nerve block procedures - Nerve block procedures, such as epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections, lumbar sympathetic block, celiac plexus block, and stellate ganglion block can be useful for treating chronic pain.
- Lifestyle changes - Lifestyle changes, such as losing weight or physical therapy, can make a significant difference in pain levels for many people.
- Trigger point injections - these injections are used to treat serious knots in the muscles, thus relieving the pain.
- Spinal cord stimulation - this uses low-level electrical signals, can be helpful in preventing pain signals from reaching the brain.
- DME (Durable Medical Equipment) - Support braces help lessen strain and pressure on the spine while improving posture and alleviating pain.
Whether your pain is the result of an injury, arthritis, fibromyalgia, cancer treatments or other issues, it is important that you are able to control the pain in order to live your normal life. The perceptions of pain in the brain can be modified by emotions, meaning that those who are depressed, anxious or are fearful of pain may experience pain differently—even more severely than those who are not experiencing negative emotions. If you are living with pain, Seattle Pain can help.
Are you suffering from severe and chronic pain?
Contact Our Seattle Interventional Pain Management Specialists
At Seattle Pain, our primary goal is to relieve your pain and improve your quality of life. We believe in treating the whole patient – and not just the injury. As such, we offer many options for pain relief, alternative medicine, and injections. You do not have to live in pain.
- Ankle Injections
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment
- Cervical Steroid Injection
- Facet Injections
- Genicular Nerve Block
- Intercostal Nerve Block
- Lumbar Sympathetic Block
- Occipital Nerve Block
- Piriformis Injection
- Sacroiliac Joint Injections
- Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block
- Stellate Ganglion Block
- Trigger Point Injections
- Whiplash and Back Injuries from Car Accidents
- Back Pain Treatments
- Caudal Steroid Injection
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Ganglion Impar Block
- Hip Injections
- Knee Joint Injections
- Medial Branch Blocks
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Shoulder Injections
- Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial
- Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block
- Trochanteric Bursa Injection
- Telemedicine
