Spinal pain that affects the lumbar region (i.e., lower back) and cervical region (i.e., neck) are highly prevalent nowadays and are more often the causes for many lost workdays and efficiency. That means many people have to apply for leaves at their workplace or office, which can be avoided largely.

In addition to a slipped disc, sciatica, nerve compression (pressure on nerves – pinched nerves), fracture in the backbone; strains and sprains in the lumbar region are the most common causes of lower back pain. Muscle strain is generally caused when muscle fibres are extremely stretched or torn abnormally – a day-to-day problem with everybody.

When we talk about joint pain then any kind of damage to the joints from a disease or an injury can interrupt your movement and result in causing a lot of pain for a longer period than anyone can think of. There are so many different prevailing conditions that can lead to painful joints, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, gout, strains, sprains, and other injuries. Due to the unhealthy lifestyle and lack of immunity in people, Joint pain is becoming extremely common nowadays.

Spine and Joint related problems may include slipped disc, cervical or neck pain (cervical spondylosis), osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis, sciatica, nerve compression, or a pinched nerve, neuropathy, arthritis, frozen shoulder, knee pain, scoliosis, and spinal cord injury. All of the mentioned problems result in chronic pain to the person facing it. At our centre, North Spine & Pain Clinic, Dr G. N. Goyal treats all the spine and joint problems. He is a specialist medical practitioner certified and trained by AIIMS medical authorities and has experience from the USA.

Understanding Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is defined as pain that has lasted longer than six weeks to three months despite physiotherapy, medication or other treatments. The pain was once viewed only as a symptom, the consequence of another condition, but now WHO has defined chronic pain as a disease itself. For almost everyone, pain is the thing that matters a lot.

Chronic pain can be mild or excruciating, episodic or continuous, merely inconvenient or disabling. That’s because pain can start a vicious cycle that has a direct impact on your health for a longer period. It may force you to stop exerting the affected area by avoiding your routine works.

To elaborate more, some people experience heart-stopping pain which can be caused by an injury or an operation but on the contrary, there are situations when pain carries even with no history of any injury or operation. That pain is eventually defined as chronic pain. In that case, the pain may occur due to any of the above mentioned spinal or joint injuries. Any discomfort or pain resulting from this reason needs a visit to the relevant doctor.

With chronic pain, signals of pain may remain active in the nervous system for weeks, months, or even years. On a general basis, a person bearing chronic pain for so long may suffer from both physical and emotional trauma. At times, however, this is not easy to find the root cause of that chronic pain, trauma or maybe an injury. In that case, people try to point out a source of their chronic pain problem but if in any case, they are not able to find the cause of their pain and it makes them so frustrating for patients, families and their doctors too.

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Chronic Pain is not at all a symptom that exists alone. Other problems associated with pain include:

• Fatigue
• Sleeplessness
• Withdrawal from an activity and the increased need to rest
• Weakened immune system
• Mood swings include hopelessness, fear, depression, irritability, anxiety, and stress disability.

Symptoms of Spine Problem:

In addition to chronic pain, symptoms of a spine problem may include:

• Bowel or bladder problems
• Back pain and neck pain
• Stress or emotional issues
• Numbness, tingling, “pins and needles”
• Fever, shivering, sweating
• Weakness, slow reflexes
• Dizziness, headaches
• Sexual dysfunction
• Unusual and sudden weight gain or loss

Possible Causes of Spine Pain

Any one of us can face back or neck pain. Still, some activities increase your chance of having that kind of pain, for example:

Getting older: As time passes and you get older, the more likely you are prone to have back or neck pain.

Poor physical fitness: Lack of exercise in busy schedules and poor posture puts you at risk of back pain.

Being overweight: Possessing extra weight results in extra stress on your spine causing you spinal problems.

Your job or your hobby: Your regular job or any other activity that requires you to lift, push, or pull weight can be risky. But the sitting job can also be hard for your back — especially if you don’t sit up straight or don’t get up very often to move your muscles.

Smoking: Studies have shown that smokers have more back pain as compared to non-smokers.

Previous or old injury: An injury you had a few months or years ago may induce a risk for your back resulting in many problems later on.

Diseases: Arthritis, osteoporosis, and other diseases can boost your chances of having back pain.

Family history and genetics: Back or neck pain can be inherited from elder family members also. This means it can be a result of family history and genetic problems.

Pain Management

Pain is not at all straightened to understand. It consists of various complexities, which is why many treatment options are available as different types of non-surgical, minimally-invasive, keyhole treatments, and other techniques.

On the contrary, unlike pain, pain management is not always difficult to understand. Pain management can be observed as both simple and complex, only depending on the root cause of chronic pain. One may face a situation where pain does not go away on its own by the time. Then it requires a varied range of skills and techniques to treat that pain. We can explain to you some of these techniques here:

Most important – Interventional procedures

With some role of:

• Pain management through appropriate medication
• Physical or chiropractic therapies
• Psychological counselling and support (when the pain does not exist)
• Acupuncture therapies

All of the above-stated treatments are necessary to administer because pain can involve many problems in different aspects of a human being’s life. So, pain management is an integral part of the whole treatment procedure.

Pain management is referred to as a super speciality branch of medicine applying an interdisciplinary approach for treating pain and also improving the quality of life of people living with chronic pain. The typical team for pain management is headed by a super-specialist doctor i.e., Interventional Spine and pain specialist along with other supporting staff as junior doctors, physiotherapists, physician assistants, and nurses.

Medical treatment of pain is suboptimal because most doctors have not yet incorporated recent scientific discoveries and shreds of evidence into their treatments. Chronic pain is a disease in its sense which is sometimes called a state of pathological pain sensitivity. In these kinds of chronic pain cases, here comes the role of a specialist doctor who is specialized in pain management or pain medicine i.e., Spine and Pain specialist or Interventional pain & spine specialist.

Our centre is a dedicated Spine and Pain Clinic that offers a team of the best spine surgeon, spine specialists, neuro-intervention surgeons & pain specialists.

If looking for the best spine specialist or spine surgeons in Delhi, then you must pay a visit to the North Spine & Pain Clinic (Spine clinic – Pain clinic – Joint clinic). Here, Dr G. N. Goyal can help you with suitable treatment or may save you from unnecessary and too risky spine surgeries. Whatever the treatment rule, it is always important to remember that pain is the most treatable.

You can easily demand general pain relief from your physician or else ask him to refer you to the best spine and pain specialist. North Spine & Pain Clinic is always there to help you treat your spinal issues or damages with the help of trained and certified doctors.

Pain relief with minimal use of painkillers and without any unnecessary surgical treatment is your right. Dr G. N. Goyal takes care of this by giving you the best suitable medical advice and treatments. He always treats his patients with the best and latest non-surgical, minimally – invasive, keyhole technologies unless it is required.

To get proper treatment, you need to understand the basic anatomy of the human back, lumbar spine and cervical spine.

You can have a look at the Services section of our website for a better and more detailed understanding of slip disc symptoms, spinal stenosis, spine problems, etc. Please do note that regular exercises and physiotherapy have always played a preventive role in treatments i.e. physiotherapy for slip disc, physiotherapy for back pain or physiotherapy for knee pain cannot treat the pain or underlying problem rather only helps in the prevention or at the maximum can help people in some kind of ortho & neuro-related muscular pain.

Minimally – invasive, non – surgical and keyhole (target-specific) treatments can save you from major surgeries in 80 – 90 % of cases. Visit our website and its Treatments section to know in detail about various treatment options with their benefits. You will surely get the best-suggested treatment here at our best pain management centre while being under the supervision of the best spine doctors in Delhi. At North Spine & Pain Clinic (Spine clinic – Pain clinic – Joint clinic), you can contact Dr G. N. Goyal for your spinal issues. He is one of the pre-eminent specialists in the city.

In a few patients, the complete and comprehensive cure of chronic pain (pain that extends beyond the usually expected period of healing, or pain that has no known underlying visible reason) is difficult to achieve, but a lot can be done to reduce the prevailing pain and suffering up to a greater extent and improve quality of life. First of all, we start treatment, the better chance we have of being successful in relieving patients from the pain. Click on Patients’ feedback to listen, what our patients have to say.

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