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Practice Management

Listening, Not Judging, An Important Component of Pain Management

Sometimes patients complaining of chronic pain are drug seeking, but isn’t addiction a form of pain as well?

January 13, 2014

General Pain Management

Pain Management More Complex in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

It may be difficult to quantify pain in a patient with a psychiatric disorder.

By

Laurence Westreich, MD and Kelly Bilodeau

May 25, 2012

For most people, pain is an automatic reflex that protects them from damaging stimulus like a hot stove or candle. For example, heat exposure activates pain receptors in the skin, which pass a signal along a sensory neuron to the spinal cord. This activates a motor neuron, which sends a signal to the muscles in the arm, causing it to contract. But nerve damage can send false signals that cause real pain, or prevent individuals from feeling pain when they are injured.

Neuropathic Pain Symptoms & Treatment

Nerve damage affects approximately 20 million Americans. There more than 100 different types of nerve damage with a range of different causes including compression, trauma, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, motor neuron diseases, nutritional deficiencies, infections, cancer and drug side effects and toxicities. Learn more about the symptoms of and treatments for neuropathic pain with this slideshow.

May 11, 2012

Diagnosing & Managing Fibromyalgia Pain

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of muscles, tendons, and joints without detectable inflammation. It affects an estimated 3-6 million Americans. Learn more about diagnosis and management with this slideshow.

April 6, 2012