The staff of CONSULTANTS IN PAIN MEDICINE is here to assist you. We are here to get you back to being yourself, back to work and all the things in life you enjoy.

Our Mission
At Consultants in Pain Medicine it is our mission to restore an individual’s activity and well being. To accomplish this we use different treatments to help patients manage and reduce their pain. Our goal is to, hopefully, eliminate pain and, if not, allow patients to continue to live their lives as productively as possible.

Our Goals

• Decrease the intensity of pain
• Improve sleep patterns
• Improve quality of life
• Increase functionality
• Patient directed therapies
• Patient empowerment
• Understand pain
• Increased physical activity

Diagnosing Pain
Pain is a symptom. To treat this symptom, an accurate diagnosis of what is causing the pain must first be made. Often, multiple diagnoses may occur. It is important that our patients develop an understanding of their medical problem and the treatments called for in order for them to return to work and to their lives.

There are many tools used to help make an accurate diagnosis.

• Patient history
• Diskography
• Physical exam
• Diagnostic nerve blocks
• X-Rays
• EMG
• MRI
• Laboratory tests
• CT, myelogram, bone scans
• Medication trials

An accurate diagnosis enables patients to understand more about their pain. Treatments will vary and the patient’s ability to communicate about the pain is important. There are common conditions that can be treated when an accurate diagnosis is made.