The treatment of cancer pain utilizes several different tools of pain management physician. Cancer pain treatment encompasses all pain that is associated from cancer and its treatment such as pain from any tumor, radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy related pain. Pain is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients. Our goal is to alleviate this aspect of the disease so patients can spend more quality time outside of the doctor’s office going about their daily activities and lives.

Using a variety of techniques pain management physicians can prescribe medications, occupational and physical therapy, and in some cases can provide minimally invasive interventional treatments which can significantly reduce pain from cancer. One of the treatments commonly used for pain include opioid medications; however, higher doses of these medications come with side effects such as lethargy, confusion, and constipation to name a few.

Our goals are to increase a patient's quality of life while minimizing pain and reducing side effects. Some patient will have severe pain that is difficult to control with medications or side effects that are too burdensome. In light of this, depening on the cause of pain, a physician may utilize medications, spinal cord stimulation, pain pumps, nerve blocks, and/or nerve ablations.

Dealing with cancer is difficult, time consuming, and above all, frightening. The tools that we have at our disposal are aimed at reducing pain and the fear of pain that may accompany this disease itself or any interventions that may cause pain.

At this disposal of a pain management physician are procedures and that can be utilized to deliver pain medications directly into the spinal canal. This direct delivery of medication into the spine reduces the amount of medication needed daily, reduces constipation, reduces lethargy, and reduces the number of visits a patient needs to make for medications. A patient with an effective pump may only need to come to the pain management office once every few months for adjustments or refills of the medication rather than every month for opioid medication refills.

Neuropathy is the medical term for nerve damage. A generalized type of neuropathy, known as polyneuropathy, is the most common type of peripheral neuropathy. Signs and symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include loss of sensation and/or burning pain in the hands or feet. Treatments for peripheral neuropathy are available and include several elements: diet and exercise, control of blood glucose levels for diabetics, prevention of injury, and control of painful symptoms.