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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805.682.5520

2329 Oak Park Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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