Pain management specialists are physicians who evaluate your pain and treats a wide range of pain problems. A pain management doctor treats sudden pain problems such as headaches and many types of long-lasting and chronic pain. Patients are seen in a pain clinic and can go home the same day.

Pain management can be simple or complex, depending on the cause of the pain being treated. Pain specialists use a variety of techniques and injections, sometimes in coordination with other doctors, to help patients recover as fully as possible.

Each pain treatment plan is unique, but all are determined by the history of the pain, its intensity, duration, exacerbating and mitigating conditions, and the physiology involved in causing the pain. Based on a body part’s nerve supply, it can be more susceptible to injury, and stimulation of this nerve supply may cause pain. The concept behind most interventional procedures for treating pain is that there is a specific structure in the body with nerves of sensation that is generating the pain. Pain management has a role in identifying the precise source of the problem and isolating the optimal treatment.