Pain Research, Translated: Why Function Matters as Much as Pain Scores
A plain-English pain research explainer on why function, sleep, walking, activity, and quality of life matter alongside pain scores.
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Specializing In You
Pain Specialty Group offers leading-edge pain therapies and comprehensive precision pain medicine for patients in Newmarket and Newington, Portsmouth, and the surrounding areas of New Hampshire's Seacoast and Maine.
The practice specializes in providing personalized, advanced interventional pain management and regenerative medicine treatments for all types of chronic pain conditions, including sports injuries, arthritis, back pain, sciatica, work injuries, and pain after auto accidents.
The senior providers at Pain Specialty Group are Anh Ngo, MD, MBA, and Manuel G. Sanchez, MD. Dr. Ngo and Dr. Sanchez are both highly experienced board-certified experts in anesthesiology and pain management who believe in using a combination of proven, evidence-based approaches to provide optimal outcomes for their patients, including interventional procedures, medication management, innovative therapies, and holistic medicine.
The entire team at Pain Specialty Group is multidisciplinary, combining expertise from various specialties including physical therapy and pain psychology. Team members tailor treatment plans to each patient, beginning with conservative approaches and minimally invasive, targeted, and precise treatments.
They also follow an accelerated functional recovery philosophy, using office-based procedures that require minimal recovery time to help decrease patients’ pain and restore maximum function.
Dr. Ngo, Dr. Sanchez, and the rest of the Pain Specialty Group team aim to achieve the best possible results for their patients whatever the source of the pain. Even patients who have been seeking relief from their pain elsewhere in the past can benefit enormously from Pain Specialty Group’s unique approach. To learn more, call the office today or book an appointment online.
Specializing In You
Pain Specialty Group offers leading-edge pain therapies and comprehensive precision pain medicine for patients in Newmarket and Newington, Portsmouth, and the surrounding areas of New Hampshire's Seacoast and Maine.
The practice specializes in providing personalized, advanced interventional pain management and regenerative medicine treatments for all types of chronic pain conditions, including sports injuries, arthritis, back pain, sciatica, work injuries, and pain after auto accidents.
The senior providers at Pain Specialty Group are Anh Ngo, MD, MBA, and Manuel G. Sanchez, MD. Dr. Ngo and Dr. Sanchez are both highly experienced board-certified experts in anesthesiology and pain management who believe in using a combination of proven, evidence-based approaches to provide optimal outcomes for their patients, including interventional procedures, medication management, innovative therapies, and holistic medicine.
The entire team at Pain Specialty Group is multidisciplinary, combining expertise from various specialties including physical therapy and pain psychology. Team members tailor treatment plans to each patient, beginning with conservative approaches and minimally invasive, targeted, and precise treatments.
They also follow an accelerated functional recovery philosophy, using office-based procedures that require minimal recovery time to help decrease patients’ pain and restore maximum function.
Dr. Ngo, Dr. Sanchez, and the rest of the Pain Specialty Group team aim to achieve the best possible results for their patients whatever the source of the pain. Even patients who have been seeking relief from their pain elsewhere in the past can benefit enormously from Pain Specialty Group’s unique approach. To learn more, call the office today or book an appointment online.
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