The specialized field of medicine known as Pain Management has been one of the most rapidly developing areas of medicine for the past 10 to 15 years. With recent breakthroughs in our ability to diagnose and subsequently treat conditions of chronic pain previously untreatable, the field has captured much attention from multiple specialists as well as the general public. Certain disease states ranging from diabetes to cancer to arthritis have as a major factor chronic pain.

   Previously untreatable, the field of Pain Management now has the ability to provide pain relief to patients with these disease processes. Additionally, many injuries such as low back strain injuries, some requiring surgery and some not, previously untreatable, are now responding to chronic pain management therapies. No longer are severe migraine headache syndromes incapable of being controlled, but now through the efforts of pain management physicians these patients are likewise finding comfort and quality of life. Specialized training is required to identify these problems and render satisfactory and successful treatment, and the physicians of the Alabama Pain Center have received just such training.