These terms can be confusing, and they are used by different healthcare providers to mean different forms of treatment. Some Pain Management Clnics are what chiropractic physicians call their clinics, based on the theory that they work towards relieving pain. There are Pain Management Clnincs which provide purely physical therapeutic and some eastern martial arts treatments, others perform acupuncture and naturopathic treatments. There are some that combine physical therapeutic treatments with psychological counseling and some medications. There are others that provide medications without interventions, and there are some that provide interventions such as epidual injections and stellate ganglion blocks without medication treatment at all. All of these are pain clinics and can use the terms pain management or pain medicine.
Most true pain management clnics provide interventional techniques, such as spinal and nerve injections, and intrathecal pumps and dorsal column stimulators, but they also provide supportive medications and physical therapy. There are some that have psychologist associated with or on staff, and acupuncture specialists, as well as chiropractors, and nutritional counselors.
Proper pain management combines all the disciplines to meet the needs of the whole patient, not just individual needs.
I worked in a pain management clinic. We did injections, could install pain pumps (which filtered out morphine through the spinal canal), injected cement into the spinal vertebrae to fix compression fractures, biofeedback, that’s all I can think of right now. A pain medication clinic just manages pain medications. Hope this helps…
These terms can be confusing, and they are used by different healthcare providers to mean different forms of treatment. Some Pain Management Clnics are what chiropractic physicians call their clinics, based on the theory that they work towards relieving pain. There are Pain Management Clnincs which provide purely physical therapeutic and some eastern martial arts treatments, others perform acupuncture and naturopathic treatments. There are some that combine physical therapeutic treatments with psychological counseling and some medications. There are others that provide medications without interventions, and there are some that provide interventions such as epidual injections and stellate ganglion blocks without medication treatment at all. All of these are pain clinics and can use the terms pain management or pain medicine.
Most true pain management clnics provide interventional techniques, such as spinal and nerve injections, and intrathecal pumps and dorsal column stimulators, but they also provide supportive medications and physical therapy. There are some that have psychologist associated with or on staff, and acupuncture specialists, as well as chiropractors, and nutritional counselors.
Proper pain management combines all the disciplines to meet the needs of the whole patient, not just individual needs.
I worked in a pain management clinic. We did injections, could install pain pumps (which filtered out morphine through the spinal canal), injected cement into the spinal vertebrae to fix compression fractures, biofeedback, that’s all I can think of right now. A pain medication clinic just manages pain medications. Hope this helps…