Not only does chronic pain cause depression it also leads to isolation and detachment from your loved ones. Chronic or acute pain decreases a patient's activities of daily living and thus quality of life. Constant pain can also lead to losing your job, mild or severe depression, social isolation and a feeling of worthlessness. Our healthcare team at Arkansas Pain works with patients to locate the cause of the pain and find the best way to provide relief. It is our mission is to help patients get back to their lives through pain relief. So often patients who have chronic pain are abandoned or labeled and many times no one has taken the steps to determine why the patient has pain so that it can possibly be fixed.
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Using the best diagnostic technologies available, we determine the source of a patient's pain. Based on this information we will then discuss the possibilities of and determine the best method of relieving this pain. Using the most advanced treatments in the field of pain management, many times we can remove pain that many thought was untreatable.
Arkansas Pain is the leader in pain management diagnostics and treatment options, including:
• X-ray guided epidural (spinal) injections
• Facet (zygapophyseal) blocks
• Radiofrequency ablation, neurotomy
• Percutaneous disc decompression
• Spinal cord (dorsal column) stimulators
• Implantable infusion pumps (pain pumps)
• Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty – compression fracture repair
In addition, we offer patients a variety of pain treatment options, we also ensure those who come to our practice have access to detailed educational materials and spend time discussing the risks benefits and alternatives with the patient. This allows treatment information and gives patients and their families the ability to make the most informed decisions regarding their health and happiness.
A primary care physician may refer patients with acute pain and chronic pain to a pain management physician to help during the healing process.
Chronic pain sufferers may also be referred to Arkansas Pain from a primary care physician or other physician as well. Our physicians will determine the source and best treatment options to get the chronic pain controlled.
Cancer pain is one of the most important pain to control this can be related to surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or the cancer itself. Many times this pain is managed by Arkansas pain in conjunction with the referring oncologist.