Euracare pain experts work to alleviate chronic pain using a combination of advanced treatments. Whether your pain is a symptom of aging, disease, or injury, or the cause is undetermined, we provide solutions to help you find long-term relief from debilitating pain.

Our skilled specialists include anaesthesiologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, physical therapists, and psychologists who work with you to create a personalized pain-management plan.

If you are schedule for elective surgery the pre-operative assessment is conducted to identify co-morbidities that may lead to patient complications during the anaesthetic, surgical, or post-operative period. Patients scheduled for elective procedures will generally attend a pre-operative assessment 2-4 weeks before the date of their surgery.

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. Pain is a subjective experience.  The experience varies from person to person and from time to time. Person experience pain on several levels and effective treatment requires a holistic assessment.

The benefits of Pain Treatment

• Improves compliance to curative treatment
• Extends survival for some patients
• Improves quality of life
• Improves patient-physician relationship
• Reduces unnecessarily prolonged admissions

What to expect from your pain management specialist?
A pain management specialist evaluates your pain and treats a wide range of pain problems such as sudden pain problems headaches and many types of long-lasting, chronic, pain such as low back pain. Pain management specialists offer a mix of medication- based treatments and procedures, that can stop the pain at its source. The doctor will perform a thorough physical exam. At the first visit, it helps to have a pain journal or at least, to be aware of your pain patterns.

Your doctor may ask following questions about your pain symptoms:

• Where is your pain? (what body part)
• What does your pain feel like? (dull, aching, tingling)
• How often do you feel pain? (how often during the day or night)
• When do you feel the pain? (with exercise or at rest)
• Setting for the pain? (is it worse standing, sitting, laying down)
• What makes your pain better? (does a certain medication help)

You might be requested:

• Your previous medical records, your medication list, and prior diagnostic studies (X-Ray, MRI, CT).
• To bring any prior, available studies (X-Rays, CT scans, MRIs).

The types of pain treated by a pain management doctor fall into three main groups.

• The first is pain due to direct tissue injury, such as arthritis.
• The second type of pain is due to nerve injury or a nervous system disease, such as a stroke.
• The third type of pain is a mix of tissue and nerve injury, such as back pain.
• To bring any prior, available studies (X-Rays, CT scans, MRIs).