Provides medication to help patients experience less pain.

May perform minor procedures to temporarily reduce a patient’s pain, such as injections and nerve ablations.

Patients typically experience less pain temporarily.

Pain relief sometimes occurs very quickly after taking the medication.

Dangerous side effects of chronic, high-dose pain medications.

Some pain medications can dramatically decrease quality of life by impairing cognitive reception and function.

The body may become reliant on the pain medication and missing doses can be dangerous or result in serious debilitating side effects.

Repetitive drug testing is required to ensure patient safety.

Patients may experience a breakdown of family and social relationships due to the cognitive side effects of many pain medications.

All respectable scientific studies on chronic use of opioids have demonstrated serious effects on quality of life such as the ability to remain employed and significant increases in divorce.

May also use a combination of pain medications and minor procedures to help patients get out of pain.

Physician has special training to deliver more advanced procedures to reduce or even eliminate pain.

A select few Interventional Pain Physicians, like Dr. Ranson, even have surgical training which allows the patient access to the most advanced surgical and non-surgical procedures to eliminate pain.

Decreases the patient’s reliance on pain medications and, in many cases, eliminates the need for chronic use of pain medications.

Patients typically experience significantly less pain after procedures as anesthesia is readily available for sedation.

Pain relief occurs very quickly after most procedures.

A thorough evaluation is performed to identify the cause of pain in order to offer the most effective procedure. Many times this leads to the discovery of a significant pathology that may have gone unnoticed.

Decreases or eliminates the need for long term pain medications.

Restores the potential for improved quality of life.

Thorough patient evaluations and testing may take more time to determine the diagnosis, although most patients’ imaging and labs can be performed within 24 hours for an urgent situation.

Some patients may have a higher copay for a procedure vs a pain medication prescription.

Some insurance companies require prior authorization for a procedure, which can take anywhere from 3-14 days. Prior authorization is not necessary for Medicare patients.