About Pain Medicine Physician Speciality

The field of pain medicine recognises that the management of severe pain problems requires the skills of more than one medical craft group. Such problems include acute pain, cancer pain, and chronic pain. The pain medicine physician serves both as a consultant to other physicians and often as the principal treating physician. The spectrum of care provided by a pain specialist includes prescribing medication, coordinating rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counselling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, co-operating with other healthcare professionals and liaising with public and private agencies.