Dr. James M. North - What Is Pain Medicine?
With a sincere bedside manner and youthful energy, Dr. North is a pain management specialist at Carolinas Pain Institute in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His expertise include ketamine therapy, advanced interventional pain therapies and neuromodulation, with a specialization in complex spinal cord stimulation cases.
What is pain medicine?
Pain medicine is a discipline within the field of medicine that focuses on the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of individuals in pain. A physician who specializes in pain medicine diagnoses and treats patients who have acute, chronic and/or cancer pain.
Ketamine Therapy has been used in medicine for more than 50 years, most commonly for its role as an anesthetic during surgery. Recently, ketamine is being used as a treatment for chronic pain management. Doctors are prescribing low doses of this medication to patients with chronic pain conditions.
Advanced Interventional Pain Therapies helps patients who have been suffering from chronic pain for years. Interventional pain medicine uses a multidisciplinary approach, in which a team of health care professionals works together, to provide a full range of treatments and services for patients suffering from chronic and/or acute pain.
Neuromodulation is technology that acts directly upon nerves. This technology alters nerve activity by delivering electrical or pharmaceutical agents directly to a target area. Neuromodulation devices treat nearly every disease or symptom from headaches to tremors to spinal cord damage to urinary incontinence. It is commonly used for chronic pain relief.
