Raj N. Sureja, MD If you’ve ever strained your neck or back, you’re very familiar with muscle guarding, although you may not even be aware of the term. After experiencing the pain of a neck or back strain, you may
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Raj N. Sureja, MD I greatly encourage my chronic pain patients to live the highest quality of life possible, even with pain, and one of the resources that often is used to help them do so is the Electronic Spinal
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD As an Interventional Pain Management Physician, one of the main goals of my practice is to encourage my patients to live the best quality of life possible even with pain. By learning how to manage
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Raj N. Sureja, MD Q: What type of patient will benefit from interventional pain management?A: Individuals with chronic pain (pain lasting three months or more, which might have otherwise resolved, based on the associated cause), who have conditions such as back
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Raj N. Sureja, MD Q: Are these Interventional procedures safe? A: Of course, interventional pain management procedures are generally safe when performed by fellowship-trained physicians with skill and experience. Patients must be aware of the potential risks and complications inherent
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Raj N. Sureja, MD Q: What is interventional pain management? A: Interventional pain management is a specialized area of medicine where we diagnose the root cause and treat chronic pain using minimally invasive, interventional procedures, whenever possible. We seek to
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD As an Interventional Pain Management Physician, I help chronic pain patients manage their treatment for intractable pain every day, through a variety of therapies, modalities and interventional procedures. I also learn about new treatments that
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In Part I & II, we talked about non-verbal pain indicators in patients with cognitive incapacitation or dementia and how we assess those patients using objective measurements that are widely accepted and used in the
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In our first article in this series, we looked at the signs that a dementia patient could present to a caregiver if they were depressed, depressed and in pain or simply in pain and not
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD Dementia or noticeable declines in cognitive function, pose unique challenges in pain management. Patients with dementia often struggle to communicate their pain effectively, leading to underdiagnosis and undertreatment. Well-meaning spouses, relatives and friends may do
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