Pain Management

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• Specialty Care Physicians and Pain Management

  This article provides information on six types of physicians: Orthopedic Surgeons, Neurosurgeons, Physiatrists, Anesthesiologists, Neurologists, and Rheumatologists.
  By: Philip R. Shalen, MD Read More

• Pain Management for Chronic Back Pain

  Neck pain and back pain used to be something many patients simply had to learn to "live" with. Recently, researchers have learned a great deal about pain and its physiological and psychological basis, leading to treatments that can provide complete or partial neck pain and back pain relief.
  By: John Revord, MD Read More

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• Specialists Who Treat Back Pain

  There are many types of health practitioners that care for patients with spinal conditions, and each has a slightly different role. Selection of the most appropriate type of h...

• Neuropathic Pain Management and Medications

  Three medicaitons are common for treating neuropathic pain. This article provides information on those three: antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and local anesthetics.

• Pain Management Techniques

  There is currently no universally accepted classification of pain management techniques for back pain or neck pain. Some pain management techniques fall into two or more gro...

• Electrotherapy

  Electricity has been used to treat pain for over 100 years. Early proponents of electricity were labeled as charlatans, but recent scientific studies have proven that electric...

• Osteopathic Medicine and Back Pain

  The distinguishing characteristics of osteopathic medicine include its focus on treating the whole body and its focus on the musculoskeletal system...