The Elliot Pain Management team is devoted to providing comprehensive pain management services. We offer excellent comprehensive pain care to our patients and their families while establishing mutually beneficial partnerships with physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that lets you know that something may be wrong. It is one of the body's warning signals that indicate there is a problem needing attention. Pain can be classified as acute pain and chronic pain.
Acute pain may come from inflammation, tissue damage, injury, illness, or recent surgery and is usually of short duration, lasting less than a week or two. It typically ends after the underlying cause is treated or has been resolved.
Chronic pain may persist for weeks, months or even years. This type of pain overwhelms all other symptoms. It may affect people so that they often cannot work, lose interest in life, and physical activity of any kind is exhausting and aggravates the pain. Chronic pain is long-standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis. It may be intermittent or continuous.
Chronic pain involves all aspects of a person's life; therefore, the most effective treatment includes not only relief of symptoms, but also other types of support. A multidisciplinary approach to pain management can often provide the needed interventions to help manage the pain. Skilled professionals are typically part of the pain management team and offer services to meet each of the patient's needs.
Services are provided by the following caregivers:
Chronic pain problems typically respond best within the structure of a comprehensive pain program that encourages the patient and family to participate and develop coping strategies and skills. The goal of pain management essentially is to help the patient return to the highest level of function and independence possible, while improving the overall quality of life - physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Pain management techniques assist in reducing the suffering experienced by a person with chronic pain.
Our diagnostic and therapeutic services include but are not limited to:
After we receive your referral from your referring physician, we will phone you to collect additional clinical information. Once we have all the necessary information, your referral will be reviewed by one of our providers prior to scheduling.
Your first appointment will be for a consult only, no procedures will be performed at the initial consult appointment. You will be asked to arrive 15 minutes early for your first appointment to complete a brief questionnaire.
We are committed to learning as much as we can about our patients so that we can begin to formulate a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs. Typically, you will be evaluated by a pain physician and/or nurse practitioner. Based on their assessment, a comprehensive treatment plan will be developed and may include recommendations back to the referring provider, referrals to specialists, and/or interventional therapy. Treatment plans may or may not include medication management.
Our goal is to work with you to develop a treatment plan that will help reduce your pain, improve function, provide you with tools to manage your pain, and thereby enhancing the quality of your life.
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