What is pain clinic?
A pain clinic is a super specialty health care facility that focuses on the diagnosis and management of pain. Also called pain management clinics/center in Vadodara, pain clinics often use a multidisciplinary approach to not only treat the pain but also help people to take an active role in managing their pain and regaining control of their lives.
Pain clinics are ideal when a patient is seeking pain relief options that are non-invasive or minimally invasive and do not involve surgery. These treatment options are focused on relieving pain with minimal impact on routine life and with a short recovery time compared to surgery. Samvedna Pain Clinic has some of the best pain management specialists In Vadodara who leverage their expertise in providing pain relief to patients.
Most interventional pain procedures done in pain clinics are conducted under Local anesthesia only.Most of the procedures are Day Care Procedures.All procedures are done with the help of a Live x-ray (I.I.T.V.) or sonography machine (USG).
What is pain management?
In India “pain management” is a sub speciality of anaesthesiology branch. It requires a specific training in form of fellowship in pain management. World institute of pain design many course for newer doctors to train as pain physician. There has been tremendous development in this branch over the past decade. New research has enabled us to understand the cause of pain and newer options for treatment to treat it.
Why its necessary?
Pain is a major health issue throughout the world. The gap between an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of pain and its treatment and the effective application of that knowledge is large and widening. Both acute (Recent) and chronic (persistent or long term) pain is poorly managed( upto 80% cases) for a wide variety of reasons in routine practices by health care providers.
Many acute pains are a useful alarm signal that something is wrong. Most minor ones get better on their own or with simple treatment. Others may be a sign of something more serious, such as a broken leg. This pain is helpful because it means that you get treatment and rest your leg until the break has had a chance to heal.
On the other hand, persistent pain appears to serve no useful purpose, but has a huge effect on the lives of many people. The reason behind increasing suffering is Sensitization. Sensitization are of two types. One which take place at site of pain is called Peripheral Sensitization and the other one which affects the brain and spinal cord called Central Sensitization. Sensitizations cause certain problems.
The problems are
Increased intensity of pain.
Increased area of pain
Increased duration of pain.
Decreased tolerability to pain.
Development of psychological problems like depression,anxiety,irritability.
Pain becomes non-responsive to routine pain killers.
Existence of different Pain Cycles which are very difficult to break
All above mentions problems convert a simple pain into a complex pain and that makes it difficult to manage.