The role of the Pain Management Team at the NDC includes providing direct treatment, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling of patients and families, coordination of care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services to doctors and dentists.
This coordinated effort optimizes the state of the art healthcare delivery to the patient to relieve pain and suffering. The Team at the NDC comprises dentists, psychologists, psychiatrists and other specialists trained in pain management.
Acute and chronic pain conditions managed by the Pain Management Program include:
• Temporomandibular disorders
• Cervical musculoskeletal pain
• Neurovascular pain
• Neuralgias and neuropathic pain
Patient education information: Types of Pain
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