According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.”

Although most pain has physical causes, the distress it can trigger renders it an emotional experience as well. Pain can be acute, lasting only a short term, or chronic, affecting patients for months or even years.

Some patients with chronic pain avoid all physical activity related to their pain, which leads to physical deconditioning. This lack of activity and resulting deconditioning can compound the physical and psychological effects of pain.

Other patients have fluctuating levels of activity, which are governed by pain. The activity rest cycle is characterized by participating in an activity until the pain becomes too severe to continue. The patient rests completely until the pain subsides and then resumes the activity and the cycle begins again.

If chronic pain is interfering with your normal activities, it’s time to evaluate treatment options. Whether pain is caused by an accident, injury, disease, or a medical disorder, FMC Campus Interventional Pain Management can help ease the discomfort.

Chronic pain is a part of life for many people but it doesn’t have to be. Our team of experts offers comprehensive care and advanced treatment to help our patients live a pain-free life.

We offer several services, including:

• Cervical Neck Pain
• Headache Treatment
• Epidural Steroid Injection
• Lumbar Facet Injection
• Inthrathecal Pump Therapy
• Neuroplasty
• Rhizotomy
• Spinal Cord Stimulation/ Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
• Sympathetic Medicated Pain Syndromes

For more information on our Pain Management Program, please contact us by calling 1-866-498-LIFE (5433).