The hospital opened the new pain management clinic to address a growing patient population in need of pain management care. Before the clinic opened, many patients — as many as 80 patients a month — needed to travel to other parts of Minnesota to find a pain physician for steroid injections or anesthetic treatment for pain relief, according to the news report.
Read the news report about Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center’s pain management clinic.
Read other coverage about pain management:
– SouthEast Pain Care Takes Over Rowan Regional Medical Center’s Pain Clinic
– Drug Response Profile Dependent on Pain Mechanism and Opioid Type
– Study: Global Pain Scale Reliable Method for Evaluating Pain
