Headache & Pain Management Center of Palm Beach

Medical conditions manifesting as pain account for 80 % of physician visits and pain costs Americans $120 billion in expenditures yearly. With this in mind, it is astonishing that only recently has pain management entered the medical school curriculum and gained status as a legitimate medical specialty. Despite great strides in medical research and technology, the mechanisms which make pain a problem in the human body are just now being explained.

The nervous system consists of nerve circuits or pathways, some of which exist to warn of injury or damage to the body and to enable one to react to prevent further trauma. The warning sign that we are all familiar with is the pain message. Acute pain is often a useful sign of underlying injury or disease that needs to be treated. However, recent research shows that with continued activation of