Pain Management
The Impact of unrelieved chronic pain is significant. Pain affects quality of life. It can cause loss of appetite, inability to sleep, work and can disrupt relationships with family and friends. The pain management team at Alegria Health and Wellness can help. Effective pain management involves treating the whole patient and may require members of our multi-disciplinary team such as neurologist, neuro-surgeons, psychiatrists, orthopedists, rheumatologists and experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Our physicians are Board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Management, and can help patients with different types of chronic pain including:
- Acute Pain
- Headaches
- Facial Pain (TMJ)
- Neck Pain
- Phantom Pain
- Limb Pain
- Back Pain
- Arthritis
- Chronic Post-operative Pain
- Herpes Zoster (shingles)
- Myofascial Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Sciatica
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Diabetic Neuropathic
- Other neuropathic types of pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndromes I & II (RSD, Causalgia)
- Sickle Cell Pain
- Cancer Pain
Pain Treatments Available:
- Medication
- Nerve blocks
- Radio frequency
- Epidural Injection
- Steroid injections
- Psychological intervention
- Physical therapy
- Implantable devices for continuous relief of chronic pain
- TENS