Pain Management

Pain Management by Pain Specialist should include an exhaustive search for the cause.  Many times the patient has an amino acid (protein building block) deficiency, a hormone deficiency or imbalance, an occult infection such as Lyme’s Disease, fungal like Valley Fever, mycoplasm, or Chlamydia, heavy metal or toxin exposure, or mineral or vitamin deficiency. Too often the pain specialist will do injections of all kinds before really searching for the cause and cure. The pain specialist likes to do the injections because insurance company pay him a lot of money to do those procedures, and it doesn’t take a lot of thought searching for the true cause of pain.  Than there is always drugs; methadone, oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin, morphine, neurotin, antidepressants, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety, tranquilizers, seizure medication and anti-inflammatory medications, easier to write a prescription than to search and find a cause and cure. Most of these drugs are highly addicting or have several side effects, effectively preventing patients from returning to their normal life again!

Extensive nutritional laboratory testing may identify an essential amino acid, fatty acid, mineral, or vitamin deficiency. Extensive infectious disease testing could cure pain in many patients. Hormones levels should be brought back to pre-pain levels, high normal levels and don’t except low normal levels.

Acupuncture for pain management and well being is Traditional Chinese Medicine proven through the millennium.  The acupuncture is performed without pain by Dr Fred Arnold and Dr Ramon Esquerdo for several medical conditions.

Prolotherapy is an injection procedure to strengthen tendons and ligaments that are painful or weaken from injury.  Prolotherapy is very affective with little discomfort because of Lidocaine use in the prolosolution.

 Dietary changes, vitamins and supplements, physical therapy, chiropractic medicine, yoga, bioidentical hormones, antibiotics, acupuncture, Prolotherapy should be tried way before the poison medicine the pain specialist usually use.

When I was attending lectures in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine there were physicians from almost every specialty including anesthesia pain specialists which made a lot of sense. After getting to known some of my colleagues at these conferences one anesthesiologist said, “If more doctors learned and practiced anti-aging medicine I would lose half of my pain practice.”