Can't Make It Through a Movie or Long Drive Due to Pain? We Can Help

You used to love driving on road trips visiting friends and family. Or, perhaps you found joy in going to the cinema and settling in for a great movie. Maybe playing with your kids or grandkids was the highlight of your day.

When you’re in pain, these everyday activities can become more challenging and far less enjoyable, so you start to pull back from life’s little pleasures. 

If this sounds familiar, the team here at Apex Pain Specialists, which is led by Dr. Maziar Massrour and Dr. Naveen Reddy, wants you to know that we see you and hear you. As board-certified pain management specialists, we understand how pain can wreak havoc on your quality of life and our goal is to help you break free from the prison of pain.

When pain invades your life

To call pain a common problem is inadequate and doesn’t fully capture the magnitude of the problem and its effects. To start, nearly one-quarter of adults in the United States struggle with chronic pain, which includes 8.5% of adults who are dealing with high-impact pain that places severe limits on their lives.

Breaking it out further, nearly 40% of Americans report back pain, 36.5% report lower limb pain, and another 31% report upper limb pain. 

Wherever your discomfort comes from, the pain itself is enough to prevent you from engaging in your favorite activities, but there’s an even darker side. We’re referring to the effects that long-lasting pain can have on your mental and emotional health.

By the numbers, about 40% of people who struggle with chronic pain also develop clinical signs of depression, anxiety, or a combination of the two. When depression and anxiety coexist with pain, the effects become even more pronounced, and your life can shrink further.

Leaving no stone unturned in finding relief

While you might already understand much of what we’ve just covered if you’ve been dealing with pain for some time, our goal is to make sure you know that we understand.

As pain management specialists, our team fully appreciates the broad reach of pain on a person’s life, and we work tirelessly to address this.

When people come to us for pain management, we first identify the underlying problem and then we review how the pain is impacting your life, and what your goals are for the future.

So, if you want the ability to sit through a movie or a long drive without interruption, we plug that into your treatment equation. In other words, our pain management is focused as much on the person as it is on the pain.

And we also pride ourselves on offering a wide range of evidence-based and minimally invasive pain management options, such as:

• Discseel® for damaged intervertebral discs
• Ketamine infusion therapy for chronic pain management
• Joint injections
• Epidural steroid injections
• Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections and regenerative therapies
• Spinal cord stimulation (SCS)
• Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
• Viscosupplementation therapy for arthritic knees
• Kyphoplasty for compression fractures in the spine
• Physical therapy

As you can see, we have you well covered.  You can rest assured that we will work diligently to find a solution that allows you to get back to life’s pleasures.

For compassionate and comprehensive care of your pain, please call our office in Chandler, Arizona, at 480-820-7246 today to schedule a visit. You can also use our online booking tool to request an appointment.