Interventional pain management

Interventional pain management is the branch of medicine that focuses on procedures designed to help treat chronic pain.

Training and education

Most interventional pain management specialists are physicians with training in anesthesiology, surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, or other branch of medicine with additional training in pain management.

What do interventional pain management specialists do?

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Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty that uses "invasive interventions such as the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment".

What is an interventional technique?

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) defined interventional techniques as, "minimally invasive procedures including, percutaneous precision needle placement, with placement of drugs in targeted areas or ablation of targeted nerves; and some surgical techniques such as laser or endoscopic diskectomy, intrathecal infusion pumps and spinal cord stimulators, for the diagnosis and management of chronic, persistent or intractable pain"