Cancer Pain
About one-third of patients being treated for cancer have pain, and each patient’s pain is unique. Therefore, each patient’s pain management plan must be carefully designed.
Cancer Pain
The Pain Management Specialists offer spinal administration of narcotics and local anesthetics for those patients where oral or intravenous narcotics and other pain medications are unsuccessful in controlling cancer pain.
The Technology
At the Pain Management Specialists we use epidural and intra-spinal catheters and internal or external infusion pumps to treat cancer pain. This technology provides a safe, reliable means of long-term drugs administration. During a minor surgical procedure, a catheter is placed in the epidural or intra-spinal space which is then connected to an internal or external infusion pump which delivers pain medication.
Advantages
This technique of delivering pain medication has several advantages. The use of local anesthetics in combination with narcotics delivered into the epidural or intra-spinal space generally results in better pain control and fewer side-effects than intravenous or oral narcotics.
Please contact us to find out more about how we can help you manage your cancer pain.
Other types of pain we can treat:
Back Pain & Sciatica
Cancer Pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Degenerative Disc Disease
Diabetic Neuropathy
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Foot Pain
Headaches
Herniated & Bulging Disc
Hip Pain
Knee Pain
Muscle Strain
Neck Pain
Nerve Damage or Injury
Neuropathy
Osteroarthritis
Phantom Limb & Stump Pain
Rib Pain
Sciatica
Shingles
Shoulder Pain
Spinal Stenosis
Tennis Elbow
Vertebral Fractures
Wrist & Hand Pain
Pain Management Specialists
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