Your physician may refer you to the Pain Clinic Of India for evaluation, for one or more specific procedures, or for ongoing treatment. The treatment plan developed by the Pain Clinic Of India will be specially tailored to your condition and degree of pain, your needs and your personal objectives.
You treatment plan may include:
a single approach or
a combination of different types of therapies:
Medical therapies
Special procedures
Psychological therapies
Rehabilitation therapies
Your recommended medical therapy may include one or more medications (analgesics).Different medications are prescribed to treat different aspects of your pain. Your recommended treatment plan may also involve the use of investigational medications.
Medications used to treat pain fall into several major categories:
Opiate "pain killers" are often used to treat acute pain or cancer-related pain, and sometimes prescribed for chronic pain.
Anti-inflammatory drugs may be helpful in alleviating pain by reducing swelling and irritation.
Anti-depressants may be helpful in reducing certain types of pain. They may also be used to help patients sleep at night.
Membrane stabilizers and other adjuvant drugs are helpful for some patients in whom pain is caused by abnormal electrical discharges in damaged nerves.
Treatments for acute and chronic pain are generally quite different.
In some cases, pain can be stopped or alleviated by a single procedure or series of procedures.
Sometimes, chronic pain is part of a widespread disease process, and the specific cause may be difficult to pinpoint.
Once we have identified the specific factor causing the pain, we may be able to treat it so that the condition no longer occurs.
In some patients, the specific factor causing the pain--such as cancer--cannot be changed, but we may be able to reduce the pain or help the patient to better copewith the pain through a combination of medical, psychological and rehabilitation techniques.
The Pain Management Center offers the benefit of a multidisciplinary team approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pain. The team includes
Highly experienced pain physicians (anesthesiologists specializing in pain management)
Minimally invasive surgeons
Nurses
Clinical Psychologists
Physiotherapists & Occupational Therapists
Rehabilitation specialists
