Degenerative arthritis is really osteoarthritis. It’s a form of joint disease where you have wear and tear that accumulates as you get older. So it’s a much more common disease as you age.
Dr. Jennifer Stevens
What is Multidisciplinary Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
If you’ve got chronic pain that’s gone on for longer than three months or is very complex and started to affect other parts of your life, you’ll often be referred to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. Now, what does that mean? That means that we look at all the different aspects of your life and how the pain has affected it. So, it’s partly about the physical, it’s about drug safety, making sure that the medications that you’re on are not ones that you’re going to become dependent on, they’re not going to cause other problems within your life. It’s partly about making sure that nothing’s been missed in your diagnosis.
What is Chronic Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
Dr. Jennifer Stevens defines the difference between chronic pain and short term pain that can be dealt with through medication and therapy.
What are some Complementary Therapies for Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
We have very few quick fixes for chronic pain, not many of the medications that we use provide instantaneous relief. Many of the medications that we do have, come with really significant problems, for example, the morphine type drugs.