With accurate diagnosis, it’s much easier to make an effective treatment plan for pain. Oftentimes, the patients that have been to our clinic have been to multiple physicians who have looked at parts of the person but don’t take the whole person into account. As pain management specialists, we take a comprehensive approach to the patient. A comprehensive evaluation often yields the answers to complex diagnostic problems that have eluded other clinicians.
Our plan always includes an accurate and detailed history, including history of medications, treatments, diagnostic studies and medical records. We collect the data and assemble a medical database. We have patients complete an extensive questionnaire. We do a physical examination and arrive at a specific diagnosis. If there are additional diagnostic studies that are required such as MRI scan, CT scan x-rays, EMG nerve conduction studies or other studies, we order those and then add the results to the medical database. Injection therapy may be a part of diagnosis of the patients. We can inject different structures, anatomic structures, in the back and with that, help to either rule in or rule out what the pain generator may be.
