Helps Alleviate Chronic Pain
The Pain Medicine Center at Doctors Hospital evaluates and treats patients who suffer with pain and have not responded to other treatment methods. It is a full multi-disciplinary center that takes a primary care, direct approach to pain management. Types of treatments include: - PAIN BLOCKS are not always needed, but when they are, they are performed in a controlled environment and the patient is sedated. A pain block is usually an injection of local anesthetic near a nerve. Pain blocks may take as little as 5 to 15 minutes to perform and are typically done on a same day, outpatient basis.
- SPINAL ENDOSCOPY utilizes a fiber optic scope inserted into the epidural space in the lower back. The scope allows the physician to look inside that space to indicate the source of pain. For instance, spinal edoscopy could be done to help determine if scar tissue, inflammation, a bulging disk, or entrapment of nerve roots is causing a patient's lower back pain.
- OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATION is manual medicine for musculoskeletal problems while acupuncture may help in the treatment of trigger points and reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- ACUPUNCTURE practices puncturing the body, as with needles, at specific points designed to help relieve pain.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION and treatment is primarily intended for patients dealing with the anxiety and depression sometimes associated with chronic pain. Group therapy and psychiatric testing may be helpful in teaching these patients to manage anxiety.
Patients who may benefit from the PMC include those with:
- Joint pain
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Cancer pain
- Chronic pain
- Failed back syndrome
- Cervical radicular pain
- Minor musculoskeletal disorders
- Lumbar radicular
- Neck and back pain
- Non-cardiac chest pain
- Arthritis
- Sacroiliac joint pain
The PMC can also treat those people who are currently on "workers' comp." The Center prides itself in helping employees get back to work. Because the PMC is housed on the hospital campus, patient services such as physical therapy, laboratory and radiology are easily accessed from the center. The PMC also accepts most insurance, including Medicare. Questions and appointment inquiries may be directed to the Pain Medicine Center at (214) 324-6050. MEDICAL STAFF
Jose' Duarte, M.D. and Salvatore Campo, D.O. are the medical directors of the full-service Pain Medicine Center (PMC) and two registered nurses with specific pain medicine training.
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