A key component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is frequently used to treat chronic pain. While the idea of extremely thin needles being inserted through your skin at strategic points in your body might unsettle plenty of people, this technique has been shown to be highly effective in treating most cases of chronic pain. In keeping with a multi-disciplinary approach to pain management, The Pain Center of Arizona offers acupuncture as an additional available therapy.

No matter the chronic pain condition, the double-board certified pain management physicians at The Pain Center of Arizona can help relieve painful symptoms associated with your condition.

At The Pain Center of Arizona, the pain doctors make it their goal to work with their patients not only in the management of their pain, but in the management of their expectations. One of the greatest challenges of pain management is that it may take several visits to The Pain Center of Arizona before the patient receives adequate pain relief. Because of this, a patient may get disappointed and can actually begin to have symptoms of depression, which can exacerbate the symptoms of pain.

Considered an effective therapy for many conditions, biofeedback is just one of the many services offered at The Pain Center of Arizona. Biofeedback can help improve your health by training you to control certain bodily functions that normally happen involuntarily. These functions include skin temperature, muscle tension, blood pressure, and heart rate. While biofeedback is helpful in many cases, those struggling with high blood pressure, tension headaches, migraine headaches, and chronic pain may find the process most useful.

As far as subjective experiences go, pain can rank at the very top of the list. Pain is something that is as individual to a person as a fingerprint, and each person experiences pain - even the same pain - differently. At The Pain Center of Arizona, our double board certified pain management doctors empathize with the fact that pain is a profoundly different experience for everyone.

Throughout the year, there are months or weeks designated toward the awareness of a certain condition or disease. The month of May has been designated as Lupus Awareness month. While not one of the common conditions seen at The Pain Center of Arizona, lupus causes pain and symptoms much like rheumatoid arthritis, other forms of arthritis, or fibromyalgia, and the pain management doctors at The Pain Center can certainly treat the painful symptoms associated with lupus.

At The Pain Center of Arizona, the entire staff, from the double-board certified pain management doctors to the other medical staff to the administrative staff all strive for excellence on a daily basis, whether serving patients or interacting with the community. The staff at The Pain Center always hopes to make a positive impact on our patients, whether they are seeing us for the first or hundredth time. With this in mind, we are excited and proud to announce that The Pain Center of Arizona has won the Phoenix Award in the Pain Management Category by the U.S. Commerce Association for the fourth year in a row.

Pain in the back and neck due to disc herniations or bulges can be severe, debilitating and can lead to referred pain to other areas of the body. The pain management doctors at The Pain Center of Arizona are experienced in treating pain due to disc problems, and can help their patients regain mobility and suffer significantly less pain.

The pain doctors at The Pain Center of Arizona are committed to offering their patients a multi-disciplinary option for pain management. The question is often raised, "why is this important?" Mainstream media, television commercials, and many other outlets often show someone taking a pill and their pain or ailment will be magically gone. Why don't the pain management doctors at The Pain Center simply prescribe a medication and send the patient on their way?

Known as the "silent killer," osteoporosis affects over 10 million Americans, with over 18 million currently at risk for developing osteoporosis. Literally meaning "porous bone," osteoporosis is the cause of a weakening of the skeletal system, which leads to breaks or fractures in different areas of the body.