Good question. There is acute pain and there is chronic pain. Acute pain is a normal sensation usually caused by some sort of trauma to the body. The feeling of having pain is actually a message from your brain telling you that you need to immediately do something because your body has been harmed in… Read more »
Spinal nerve stimulators use electrical pulses to block the pain signal to the brain; this summer the FDA approved one about the size of a pacemaker Read The Article on CBS News
Depression in humans has always been a part of humankind. Healers, writers, and philosophers had each agreed throughout the ages that depression not only existed, but was either a physical or mental struggle for people the world over. Yet, they themselves had had their own struggles during those experiential times. “How does one heal another… Read more »
I’ve Heard About Chronic Pelvic Pain. Do I Have It? Ever get that sense that while you’ve been experiencing real, honest pain in your pelvic region, no one believes you? You know…that area that’s somewhere in between your belly button and your hip area? They tell you that since the severity of it comes and… Read more »
So, Why Choose MPC? Dr. Mark Gostine, MD and Dr. Fred Davis, MD founded Michigan Pain Consultants, PC (MPC) in 1984 with a philosophy that: “Chronic pain should be treated like other chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure. Chronic pain requires chronic treatment. The goal of treatment is to optimize… Read more »