Health Benefits Pain Management

Welcome

Health Benefits is a private practice group founded on academic principles of evidence-based medicine.  We provide outpatient pain management and intervention by board certified medical physicians.  We believe listening and understanding how pain affects the individual's physical and emotional well-being is the integral part of helping these patients return to their regular daily living activities and maximizing their functional outcomes.

Demystifying

Sports and Pain Medicine

MYTH #1

“My pain? I just have to live with it…” Pain affects the body’s ability to sleep and overall day to day efficiency.  The effects of untreated pain can create a cycle that develops into chronic pain syndromes.  It is unacceptable to surrender to pain without exploring treatment pathways that are available.

MYTH #2

“All pain care involves narcotic medications…” Most patients actually do not require narcotic medications.  A treatment pathway that allows for the body to heal itself with proper medically guided intervention offers the best functional outcomes and offers the best and fastest pathway to return to previous work and physical activities.

MYTH #3

“Pain care is just masking my injury…” The body uses pain to signal to us that something is not right.  The goal is to identify the pain generators that are causing pain to the body and help in the process of recovery.

MYTH #4

 “I’ve had pain for awhile and nothing works…I guess I need surgery…” For both acute and chronic pain, the most logical starting point to attack pain, whether from an acute sports or work injury to chronic pain, is to follow a conservative treatment regimen with guidance from a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician who can best coordinate the best treatment profile  for the utmost patient care.

 

 

Sports and Pain Medicine

Medicine has changed dramatically in the 21st Century.  While technology has created astonishing innovations for managing and treating medical conditions, there remains the underlying need for true standard of care: listening to the patient.