Pain Conditions
Pain Management Center
Beverly Hospital at
Danvers
480 Maple Street
Danvers, MA 01923
978.304.8601
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The Pain Management Center specialists care for patients with all
forms of pain. Common pain conditions treated in the center
include, but are not limited to:
- Acute herpes zoster/shingles - viral infection of nerve roots
causing pain and a rash
- Back, neck and musculoskeletal pain- Several disorders that can
produce pain in these areas are muscle strain, ligament sprain,
myofascial pain, fibromyalgia among other disorders.
- Cancer pain - pain associated with malignancies
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - a condition that occurs when the
median nerve becomes pinched due to swelling of the nerve or
tendons or both. When this nerve becomes pinched, numbness,
tingling, and sometimes pain of
the affected fingers and hand may occur and radiate into the
forearm.
- Cervical or lumbar disc herniation - disc between two vertebrae
ruptures and puts pressure on the spinal cord
- Complex Regional Pain Syndromes (CRPS), formerly known as
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)- is a progressive disease of the
Autonomic Nervous System characterized by continuous, intense pain
that is out of proportion to the severity of the injury. CRPS
or RSD can occur from trauma/injury to the body
- Facet Syndrome - a condition characterized by a pattern of
back pain (sometimes with buttock and leg pain) that is generated
by a unique set of joints between each vertebrae, called the facet
joints. Pain from facet syndrome is often experienced
in the vicinity of the inflamed joint, though occasionally the pain
spreads away from the spine several inches or more, sometimes into
the limbs
- Failed back syndrome - or post-laminectomy syndrome, refers to
chronic back and/or leg pain that is experienced after spine
surgery or other interventions
- Fibromyalgia - a medical disorder characterized by chronic
widespread pain and a heightened, painful response to pressure in
muscles and fibrous tissue especially of the back, shoulders, neck,
hips, and knees
- Headache and facial pain- Migraine, cluster, tension, sinus
headaches; temporomandibular joint (TMJ) / jaw pain caused by
arthritis, jaw injury, or muscle fatigue
- Neurologic pain - a sharp, shocking pain that follows the path
of a nerve and is due to irritation or damage to the nerve.
Causes of neuralgia include:
- Pelvic and urogenital pain- occurs mostly in the lower
abdominal area and can include among other disorders
interstitial cystitis, chronic prostatitis, endometriosis,
and pudendal neuralgia
- Post-herpetic neuralgia - localized pain in the area of
involvement of shingles that persists beyond one month
- Post-amputation pain - Sometimes called "phantom pain" and
occurs when a limb is removed during an amputation, an individual
will continue to have an internal sense of the lost limb.
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) - now referred to as
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a
progressive disease of the Autonomic Nervous System characterized
by continuous, intense pain that is out of proportion to the
severity of the injury. RSD or CRPS can occur from
trauma/injury to the body.
- Sciatica - pain along the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in
the body, usually caused by a herniated disk of the lumbar region
of the spine and radiating to the buttocks and to the back of the
thigh
or
- Sciatica - a common or lay term for lumbar radiculopathy.
Sciatica refers to compression, irritation, disease or dysfunction
of the spinal nerve roots often causing pain, numbness, or weakness
into the legs.
- Spinal nerve pain - pain caused by spinal cord injury or damage
to the nerves associated with the cervical, thoracic, lumbar,
sacral and coccygeal regions of the spine.
- Vascular insufficiency - inadequate peripheral blood flow that
results in pain to the area of inadequate blood flow.
