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People
develop pain for many reasons. Pain from a recent surgery,
injury or medical illness is called acute pain. In
most cases, this pain can be managed immediately and usually
gets better within a short period of time. However, for more
serious pain, your primary care doctor may ask you to see a
doctor who specializes in pain medicine to help manage your
pain while you are healing.
Should
your pain persist after the healing process is over, you
might have what is called chronic pain. If the
current treatment you are receiving stops working or your
pain begins to get worse over time, your primary care doctor
may again suggest that you see a pain medicine doctor.
Cancer
pain is another condition that can be managed by a pain
medicine doctor while the patient continues to receive
treatment for various types of cancer. The pain can be due
to cancer surgery or treatment procedures, including
radiation therapy and chemotherapy, or the tumor itself.
Anesthesia and Pain Management focuses on
managing all types of pain - studying what causes it, how
the body reacts to it, how different medications dull or
eliminate the pain, and how other treatments can be used to
relieve many painful conditions.
The
following is a list of available Anesthesia and Pain
Management procedures available at Beverly Hills Medical
Group - please click the links to find out more:
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