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Re: Any PM&R spouses 'round here?
What Jenn said. The Doc I send my patients to does injections/PT/& other treatments. I have some patients who have chroinic pain, and for various reasons are not surgical candidates. Chronic pain can be debilitating for some of these people. Some patients refuse to even go to the orthopedist because they know that they wouldn't have surgery anyway because they wouldn't survive it, and the orthopods wouldn't agree to operate on them (older, in their 80s with comormidities such as severe lung disease/heart disese). For them their only hope is the PM&R. I have one patient who calls me about once a month to thank me for sending her, she was basically housebound secondary to pain. Now she is able to get out and visit with friends and family and she is only using a cane now. Her other option was pain meds, and they just made her loopy and more likely to fall and break something.
What Jenn said. The Doc I send my patients to does injections/PT/& other treatments. I have some patients who have chroinic pain, and for various reasons are not surgical candidates. Chronic pain can be debilitating for some of these people. Some patients refuse to even go to the orthopedist because they know that they wouldn't have surgery anyway because they wouldn't survive it, and the orthopods wouldn't agree to operate on them (older, in their 80s with comormidities such as severe lung disease/heart disese). For them their only hope is the PM&R. I have one patient who calls me about once a month to thank me for sending her, she was basically housebound secondary to pain. Now she is able to get out and visit with friends and family and she is only using a cane now. Her other option was pain meds, and they just made her loopy and more likely to fall and break something.
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