September is Pain Awareness Month

Did you know September is Pain Awareness Month? This month we focus on education around the various aspects of acute and chronic pain, pain management and pain treatment.

The spine and spinal injury is a major source of pain for so many individuals. Treatment need not wait until your pain is so severe, you can hardly move. Talking to a specialist early, about the source of your pain, possible preventative measures to manage this pain and how to know if the pain is serious, is recommended.

Likewise, there is a misconception that the treatment of spine pain must be invasive and itself painful. This is not true. So many treatments that one required a long hospital stay are now considered minimally invasive. Most patients go home within an hour of a procedure.