Do Antidepressants help with back pain? Sometimes. Certain antidepressants may help relieve chronic back pain, particularly when nerve pain is involved, even if you don't have depression. They work by affecting the brain's pain pathways, but they're not appropriate for
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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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Jenny L.F. Andrus, MD Diagnosis of Radiculopathy (pain that originates in the nerves emerging from the spinal cord) I’ll typically diagnose radiculopathy through a combination of reading notes from your prior physician visits, reviewing and imaging studies, such as MRI
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD As an Interventional Pain Management physician, I often use clinical terms when I talk about nerve pain related conditions with patients. Two terms that I use frequently are radiculopathy and neuropathy, and I think it
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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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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD As an Interventional Pain Management Physician, it is important that I intimately understand how the human body reacts to painful triggers, how the nerves communicate with one another and relay those signals of discomfort to
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD When I see a patient for a pain consultation, I often will classify and categorize their pain a certain way in my diagnosis. Often the patient will ask me with surprise, “Isn’t pain just pain”?
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