Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In Part I & II, we talked about non-verbal pain indicators in patients with cognitive incapacitation or dementia and how we assess those patients using objective measurements that are widely accepted and used in the
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In our first article in this series, we looked at the signs that a dementia patient could present to a caregiver if they were depressed, depressed and in pain or simply in pain and not
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD Dementia or noticeable declines in cognitive function, pose unique challenges in pain management. Patients with dementia often struggle to communicate their pain effectively, leading to underdiagnosis and undertreatment. Well-meaning spouses, relatives and friends may do
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD As an Interventional Pain Management Physician, it is important that I intimately understand how the human body reacts to painful triggers, how the nerves communicate with one another and relay those signals of discomfort to
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD When I see a patient for a pain consultation, I often will classify and categorize their pain a certain way in my diagnosis. Often the patient will ask me with surprise, “Isn’t pain just pain”?
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD For patients who suffer with severe post-herpetic neuropathy and neuralgia who are debilitated by chronic pain may benefit from more intensive therapies, such as electronic cell signaling therapy (ECST), peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) or Electronic
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In part III of this series, we’ll discuss the latest conservative treatments for Post Herpetic Neuropathy. Have you ever heard the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? When it comes
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In Part I of this three-part series of articles, we defined what post herpetic neuropathy was, how it was caused and how if differs from post-herpetic neuralgia, even though the two terms are sometimes used
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD In my practice as a busy Interventional Pain Management Specialist, I treat patients who suffer from a wide variety of painful issues, whether it be from injury, aging or from an illness, acquired condition or
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD “Psychogenic pain” is pain that doesn’t have a directly attributable physical cause, like a broken bone or a cut on a finger. There is no distinguishable reason for the pain to exist, but it
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