Chronic Pain
Chronic pain presents a different challenge from acute or cancer-related pain. Often, the underlying direct cause of chronic pain cannot be eliminated. In these circumstances, comprehensive pain management is used to relieve suffering and to improve a person's quality of life.
Chronic pain can severely impact your physical, emotional and psychological well-being, ultimately affecting your quality of life. This kind of pain, which often continues for 24 hours a day, seven days a week for three months or more, is often caused by a disease and/or an injury. However, sometimes there is no obvious cause of why the pain started and continues.
Therapy for chronic pain includes a variety of treatment methods, including medications, nerve blocks, advanced interventional methods, self-management techniques, and physical therapy.
Care for chronic pain is available through the Penn Pain Medicine Center.
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Chronic pain therapy starts with a careful, comprehensive evaluation. This evaluation starts with a careful review of past medical therapy, including a review of the studies (X-rays and MRI scans, etc.) that have been done. As a result, we require that patients bring these records to the first appointment.
Therapy for chronic pain includes a variety of treatment methods, including medications, nerve blocks, advanced interventional methods, self-management techniques, and physical therapy.
Care is often provided using a team approach, in which the patient may be cared for by a pain physician, psychologist, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and physical therapist. Comprehensive interdisciplinary pain care is available at the Penn Pain Medicine Center.
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