What You Want to Look for in Pain Management Doctors

When pain becomes a near constant state of being, you grow used to putting on a brave face and moving through your day as best you can, hiding the fact that you’re not doing well. And the effort is exhausting, physically and mentally.

While a light at the end of the tunnel may seem dim, it can be much brighter if you have the right pain management doctor on your side.

In the United States, tens of millions of people live with chronic pain (more than 20% of adults) and this issue is only growing as our population ages. Thanks to these large numbers, there are more pain management practices and doctors than ever, which can make choosing one that’s best for your needs confusing.

While we may be biased here at Apex Pain Specialists, Dr. Naveen Reddy and Dr. Maziar Massrour want to provide you with some points to consider when choosing a pain management doctor.

No two people experience the same pain

The first point we want to make is that we understand that no two people experience pain in the same way. The human body houses hundreds of peripheral sensory nerves that use the brain as their command center. So, imagine that the brain — the organ that holds your memories, experiences, traumas, emotions, etc. — is in charge of how you experience pain.

When a nerve is irritated or damaged, it sends signals to your brain for interpretation. How your brain interprets the messages depends a good deal on its filters. For example, if you’ve been burned before, your brain remembers this so the next time your nerves signal dangerous heat, your brain may overreact based on previous experiences.

This kind of filtering is rampant when it comes to pain and discomfort and it’s important that pain management doctors plug this important point into their overall approach. 

This is why both Dr. Reddy and Dr. Massrour take the time to listen to your experiences and how the pain is affecting you before recommending a treatment plan.

An extensive pain management toolkit

A good pain management doctor not only understands that people feel pain in different ways, they also know that there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Just as people experience pain differently, they can also experience treatments differently.

To address this, we offer an extensive pain management toolkit here at Apex. We have seen, time and again, how one pain management treatment is perfect for one patient, but fails with another. So, instead of spinning our wheels with an ineffective treatment, we can change tack entirely and go in a new direction as we offer a wide range of options.

Pain isn’t linear so your treatment options shouldn’t be either, and we understand this.

Compassion matters in a pain management doctor

We know you’ve been putting on a brave face, but we want you to know that we offer a safe space where you can drop the mask. As important as experience and training are, and our pain management doctors have plenty on both fronts, so, too, is compassion.

Pain is all-encompassing, and you want a provider who understands that pain affects your life on nearly every level. We most certainly do, which is why we emphasize compassion in our practice — you're not just a patient with a problem, you’re a person in pain. 

To see for yourself what great pain management entails, look no further than Apex Pain Specialists. To meet with one of our pain management experts, please call our office in Chandler, Arizona, at 480-820-7246 or book an appointment online today.