Treatment of Pain
Pain ManagementPain Management often uses a multidisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of anyone experiencing pain, whether acute pain or chronic pain.Pain is not merely a symptom but a disease in itself. Pain can be frustrating as it may interfere with work, sleep, and prevent an individual from enjoying quality time with friends and family. Pain management is an aspect of medicine involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. But treatment is complex and can lead to harmful effects if not properly administered and monitored. That’s why pain management may require the involvement of an anesthesiologist who specializes in pain medicine. Conditions like acute surgical pain, inflammatory pain, trauma, acute pathologies , post operative pain etc. , if not treated timely and properly , lead to chronic pain syndromes . The chronic pain is a multimodal concept involving multiple systems of body . The management of chronic pain requires holistic multidisciplinary approach targeting all factions of chronic pain syndrome . Chronic pain always has psychosocial component which if not tackled properly , can consequently lead to disastrous psychological implications. Hence , chronic pain has to be handled efficiently. There are modern treatment modalities available in this field . Along with non pharmacological methods like physiotherapy , yoga and accupressure , pharmacological methods like various drugs and surgical treatments are available options . The chronic pain interventions are newer techniques which act as bridge between pharmacotherapy and surgical treatments. Various chronic pain conditions are orthopaedic pain , backache , neck pain , shoulder pain , arthritis pain , spondylosis , disc prolapse , musculoskeletal pain , joint pains , neuropathic pain, radiculopathy, myopathy , trigeminal neuralgias , headache , migraine , vasculitis , chronic abdominal pain , chronic pancreatitis, sciatica , diabetic neuropathy, cancer pain and many other grave diseases causing chronic pain manifestations. With advent of advanced interventions like nerve blocks and pain injections , Dr. Umesh Ramtani , consultant Anaesthesiologist and trained pain physician, can provide relief from sufferings . These interventions and injections are day care procedures carried out under C- arm X- ray guidance or USG guidance with the expertise and experience in a very smooth and easy way without much trouble to patients .. Such varied interventions are frequently being done at Nandini Multispeciality hospital by Dr. Umesh Ramtani , who is available at the hospital with his expert advise and consultation . |