Should be. I did some temp work for a pain specialist back in Central IL. I was really impressed with her and the art of pain management in general.
When I went to see the Rheumatologist one day and having so much neck pain that I couldn't stand straight, they suggested I see a pain specialist. I did, or rather I saw their PA who recommended radio frequency ablation to me for my neck pain. I just kind of blinked at her, knowing what that was and asked why they were recommending that without doing an MRI or CT scan of my neck and shoulders. Oh, they kind of blinked at me and said, why yes, that was what they were just going to suggest....yeah right. I had an MRI done though and that was when they found the degenerative disc and degenerative foramen diseases going on in my cervical spine along with some pressure on my spinal cord and stenosis throughout my neck. They told me if it was there it was probably all through my back, especially my lower lumbar spine, which is the other area that I have a lot of pain in. I had them send me a copy of my results and had a chance to do some research so when I went back to them, I told them 'look, I'm not a medically uneducated person. I know that what I have isn't going to get better, only worse. I'm not ready to use the big gun treatments while a smaller gun will do the trick.' I went to my DO who is fantastic and told him what was going on. He told me I was making the right choice for now and got me into PT which helped my neck pain a lot along with steroid IM.
Granny have you done PT lately? Medicare is great about paying for it after meeting deductible. I know someday I will have to have the RFA treatments but not now.
