I'm glad you found our site. Congrats on the new friend although I'm sorry to hear he is in so much pain.
My first thought is that you should find a large teaching hospital near you, one that is connected with a medical university, and talk to their pain management department. These types of facilities usually get referrals from all over the regional area, so they see more cases and more unusual cases, making them more familiar with treating someone who isn't just a typical everyday patient with common issues.
For instance, in my area I could go to Loyola or the University of Chicago or University of Illinois at Chicago. They have large teaching departments for each type of medicine. If you don't have good luck with the pain management department you could try neurology or neurosurgery, but I think pain management is going to give the most help. They usually have ideas that involve medications, interventions such as injections, and holistic things like massage, acupuncture, therapy, meditation, and low tech things as well. A good pain therapy clinic will combine all of these types of things together to help a person get the best outcome possible for their type of pain.
We also have a section on pain management that may give you some ideas: https://www.empowher.com/media/reference/pain-management-center
I hope this helps you and your friend. Please let us know how you do.
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Hi Karen
I'm glad you found our site. Congrats on the new friend although I'm sorry to hear he is in so much pain.
My first thought is that you should find a large teaching hospital near you, one that is connected with a medical university, and talk to their pain management department. These types of facilities usually get referrals from all over the regional area, so they see more cases and more unusual cases, making them more familiar with treating someone who isn't just a typical everyday patient with common issues.
For instance, in my area I could go to Loyola or the University of Chicago or University of Illinois at Chicago. They have large teaching departments for each type of medicine. If you don't have good luck with the pain management department you could try neurology or neurosurgery, but I think pain management is going to give the most help. They usually have ideas that involve medications, interventions such as injections, and holistic things like massage, acupuncture, therapy, meditation, and low tech things as well. A good pain therapy clinic will combine all of these types of things together to help a person get the best outcome possible for their type of pain.
We also have a section on pain management that may give you some ideas: https://www.empowher.com/media/reference/pain-management-center
I hope this helps you and your friend. Please let us know how you do.
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