Whether you suffer from acute or chronic pain, MaineHealth Pain Care Rockport provides comprehensive care, close to home. Our dedicated team of pain management experts will assess your condition and develop a plan to help you:
- Achieve your pain management goals
- Increase your quality of life
- Decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety
- Reduce how often pain interferes with daily activities
- Decrease dependence on prescription medications
Patients who experience acute or chronic pain usually require medical evaluation, management and treatment. We'll work with you to develop a pain management plan that best meets your unique needs and lifestyle preferences.
Expert pain care services can improve your quality of life
Pain management services include:
- Complete medical examination, medical history/current medication review
- Laboratory and/or diagnostic imaging tests
- Individual treatment plan
- Patient education/behavior modification
- Muscle or tissue manipulation
- Medications
- Injections (epidural, trigger point, nerve blocks)
- Invasive therapies
- Implanted medical devices
- Minor procedures not involving surgery
- Recovery or prevention plans
- Chronic pain counseling
- Referrals to specialists or rehabilitation
Our board-certified pain management specialists are here to help. If you have a history of chronic pain that has not been successfully treated by other methods, call us to make an appointment. Some insurers require a provider referral.
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Your doctor may recommend one or more of the following tests and treatments:
- Electrodiagnostic testing (EMG): electrical impulses that measure the health of nerves and muscles
- Fluoroscopically guided spinal injections: using X-rays to deliver highly-targeted injections near the spinal column
- Intramuscular stimulation (Dry Needling): tiny needles that stimulate muscle tissue to help ease pain
- Spinal cord stimulation: stimulating the skin near the spinal cord to relieve pain
- Trigger-point injections: tiny needles that can release knots in your muscles and ease pain
- Image-guided or ultrasound-guided injections: using diagnostic imaging tools to deliver highly-targeted injections near the spinal column
Interventional pain management is a proven approach to disrupting chronic or severe pain cycle. Doctors perform minimally invasive medical procedures that help stop the transmission of pain signals between your nervous system and your brain.
Physical medicine is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and disability using hands-on treatments such as spinal manipulation or massage, sometimes with the assistance of medical devices or the application of heat, cold, electricity, radiation, or water.
