A “Pain Clinic” uses services for SJD hospital in Aligarh, of a specialist such as neurology, psychology, physical therapy, orthopaedics, anesthesiology and neurosurgery. These clinics are specialised areas that are now taking up the role of an essential service as they meet the unmet needs of an existing medical facility. The Pain Clinics help by simultaneously treating the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, vocational and social aspect of chronic pain cost effectively.
According to Dr. Sanjeev Sharma “take two aspirins & go to bed” dictum is over “what can’t be cured has to be endured” has changed with the role of the interventional pain specialist. Pain speciality is a “medical necessity”.
