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INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT (IPM) & PAIN CLINIC ‘Pain is perfect misery, the worst of all evils, and if excessive, overturns all patience’ In many diseases, pain is the most troublesome symptom. There is no question of bearing the pain. Pain becomes very resistant to treatment when it becomes old. So, Pain needs aggressive and immediate treatment. Though ‘IPM’ is a much known specialty in many developed countries like USA, but in India it is relatively new. This specialty deals with diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders. This is based on newer developments in understanding the cause of pain, newer concepts of analgesic therapy, newer drugs to manage pain, newer techniques to treat pain. ‘Joint pain’ is the most common suffering in old people. Sometimes surgery may be the definitive treatment but pain can be adequately controlled by this new treatment technique and surgery can be delayed. ‘Cancer’ can not be cured but pain can be cured or at least adequately controlled by different techniques and medicines. ‘Back pain’ may be disc related or may come from the joints of the back. Many newer and effective treatment modalities have come up to treat back pain. ‘Headache’, ‘Neck pain’, ‘cervical pain’, ‘Face pain’,’ Nerve pain’, ‘any old difficult to treat pain’ are also the patients of the ‘PAIN CLINIC’. The ‘IPM’ procedures are done as OPD basis and usually there is no need for admission. 2 or more Injections are given at the pain producing site. Pain is to be treated promptly because (1) psychological effects like anxiety, depression, lack of sleep, anger, suicidal attempts can be avoided (2) to achieve the adequate control of diseases like diabetes, High blood pressure (3) meaningful & productive social life (4) effective pain control can prolong life (5) family members are also relieved from constant worries.
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