Pain is an unpleasant sensation originating from any part of the body, including all past experiences of a person, whether due to an organic cause or not. It can be acute (sudden onset) or chronic (long-lasting). The most common complaints are back, leg, knee, neck and headaches. These are followed by back, shoulder-arm pain. In addition, facial pains-neuralgias, pain due to vascular occlusion, cancer pains and pains whose cause cannot be determined are frequently experienced.
Acute pain is usually a symptom of tissue damage, a body disorder, or a disease. Such pains are very important signals of the body’s alarm system, the messengers that enable the patient to consult a physician. For the correct diagnosis, listening to the patient’s story and a good examination are necessary. Laboratory and radiological examination is very helpful in reaching the source of acute pain.
Chronic pain, on the other hand, has ceased to be a symptom of a disease and has become a disease in itself. It takes longer than 6 months. With the depression that often accompanies chronic pain, the event turns into a vicious circle. The person enters a process that exhausts himself and his environment. As a result, it is a situation that limits the activities of the person in his work and social life, and can cause serious social and economic losses as well as constant suffering.
Today, the use of painkillers in the treatment of pain is very common. These drugs, which are used uncontrolled and irregularly, have many side effects. Stomach damage, damage to the liver and kidneys are the most known of these side effects. In cases where painkillers are not enough, interventional treatments, physical therapy or surgical methods can be applied.
Interventional methods in the treatment of chronic pain constitute a very special field of anesthesiology. By blocking the nerve fibers transmitting the pain, painlessness is provided in an effortless, easy and effective way. Acupuncture and ozone treatments have been added to this method, which is performed by anesthesiologists and provides the blockage of the nerves that transmit pain, in our clinic. With all these methods brought together, pain can be treated in the first application and within seconds. For a permanent treatment, several sessions are required. Many chronic pains such as many back and neck hernia, knee calcification, fibromyalgia, migraine, rheumatic pains, cancer pain can be treated very well with minimally invasive techniques, ozone injections and acupuncture (laser acupuncture, electroacupuncture…). Let’s not forget that painlessness is the most aesthetic way of life.
