In the next dates, pain management is a very large business. There are over 100 million people in America suffering every year from chronic pain, and the cost of this exceeds $500 billion annually. Multiple misperceptions exist in the field of pain management, and here are a few of them described.
1. Opiate medications are always bad. Every year, fatalities from overdoses exceeds 15,000 individuals and a lot of bad press exists on a weekly basis with pill mill practices and opiates area so it is only natural that a large amount of the population sees narcotics as being always a terrible thing.
However, opiate medications do in fact have a legitimate place in pain management. For instance, a patient who has cancer may live his or her last few months in horrific pain if they do not have narcotics to assist in the relief that they deserve.
In patients who do not have a surgical option for their chronic pain, narcotics other types of pain management along with can allow patients to work, and enjoy functional lives play with their children. Also treatment with a Gilbert chiropractor may help tremendously.
So narcotics do in fact have a place in the treatment of patients dealing with acute and some types of chronic pain.
2. An MRI will always give you a diagnosis for back pain. It is interesting to note that even with the best medical minds, in this day and age only 50% of patients can receive a true definitive diagnosis for why they are having back pain.
This includes individuals who have had a comprehensive workup of the musculoskeletal system including x-rays, history and physical, and even an MRI. So an MRI is not always the most trustworthy piece of the puzzle.
3. Back surgery fixes most back pain. A significant amount of time there is not really a true cure for a person’s lumbar pain. Spinal fusion surgeries and United States have increased 15 fold over the last 10 years and the population in America has not gone up nearly that much. So it is a fact that with all these surgeries being performed the results have not improved substantially and in fact they remain moderate at best.
4. Only 3 injections of steroids are allowed per year. Doctors specialize in Arizona pain management are not in agreement with regards to how many injections of steroids are permitted in any given calendar year. This is because scientifically there really has not been any study that has proved the exact number but should be allowed.
With the steroid being injected into a focal area, the medicine and stays in that area and very little of it actually gets into the bloodstream. So in fact more than 3 story injections can be given each year, and we really do not know how many injections are actually okay to perform.
5. All pain management involves opiate prescriptions. This is definitely a myth. The most modern types of pain management involve a comprehensive approach. This includes multiple pain doctors from different specialties collaborating and may include physical therapy, interventional pain management, or Scottsdale chiropractic treatment. Injections may include trigger points, epidural injections, or facet injections. This comprehensive treatment approach allows patients a lot of pain relief and tries to minimize the narcotics necessary.



