What is Pain Clinic?
Continual advances in Medicine, Surgery and Anesthesia increasing our life expectancy
as well as putting us at increasing risk for the development of Chronic pain secondary
to trauma, cancer and old age itself. Severe chronic pain is now a massive medical,
economic and social problem.
This has led to the evolution of PAIN CLINIC's over the years where innovative technologies
and novel drug delivery systems have been tried to bring freedom from pain.
Pain Management is a new specialty of Medicine, recognized as 34th specialty of
medicine in USA. There is lots of advancement in this branch of Medicine and new
modalities of pain management have evolved along with many conventional methods.
Pain physicians are devoted to managing acute and chronic pain conditions which
needs an in-depth understanding and knowledge of evaluating a pain patient, appropriate
assessment and quantification of pain and judicious selection of treatment modalities.