Pain Management

Chronic pain affects an estimated 86 million American adults to some degree. Which explains why pain management continues to grow as a specialty area in the field of medicine.

Pain management (also known as pain medicine or algiatry), employs an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those living with pain.

Medicine treats injury and pathology to support and speed healing; and treats distressing symptoms such as pain to relieve suffering during treatment and healing. However, when a painful injury or pathology is resistant to treatment and persists, when pain persists after the injury or pathology has healed, it may be wise to seek treatment from a pain management specialist, The role of the pain management physician is to help identify the underlying cause of the pain, and when options for cure are not available, to reduce the devastating impact that chronic pain can have on one’s life.

At McBee Surgical Center, our approach to pain management is to provide state-of-the-art, individualized care that addresses the particular needs of each patient — through evaluation and treatment that draw on all the resources available to us.