The Pain Management Group
Blog
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How to Avoid Holiday Stress
The holidays can be stressful. Between hosting family members, preparing holiday meals, cooking or even just grocery shopping during the holiday season, it’s easy to experience stress. Chronic pain can be worsened by stress, so it’s important to learn how to ease holiday stress.
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PMG Welcomes New Physicians
The Pain Management Group is expanding to better serve our patients. We are pleased to welcome three new pain management physicians to our growing practice.
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Adjusting to Life With Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a life-changing diagnosis. Once-loved activities or hobbies may not be as easy as they once were before chronic pain.
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Vitamins and Minerals for Pain Management
Our lifestyles and eating habits can have a big impact on our bodies. It should come as no surprise that chronic pain can also be impacted by how we fuel our bodies with food.
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Nutrients for Pain and Inflammation
Nearly all pain has some component of inflammation. The foods we choose to eat each day can make inflammation worse, causing more pain.
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Tips to Reduce Stress
Stress affects everyone, but if you are living with chronic pain, you may find that stress can increase and worsen your pain symptoms. Because of this, it is necessary to find methods and techniques to help you cope with and manage your stress levels.
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Eating Healthy on a Budget
A balanced, healthy diet is an important component of chronic pain management. But eating healthy can be difficult, and many people think it can be expensive. However, that’s not always the case.
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Referral Access Made Easy
Ease in access is vital for the referring office—The Pain Management Group makes it is as easy as 1-2-3! It’s your choice—THREE convenient ways to refer your patients!
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Fighting Pain and Inflammation With Nutrition
Pain and inflammation are almost always associated with one another. Patients experiencing inflammation in their bodies often experience pain or swelling, especially those with arthritis, fibromyalgia or other conditions.
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Understanding Your Loved One’s Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a life-changing diagnosis. It can affect a patient in all aspects of their life – including their relationships. Knowing what to say and how to help a chronic pain patient can be confusing. That’s why it is important to understand chronic pain so that you can support your loved ones through this diagnosis.
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Congratulations to Dr. McHugh!
We are proud to congratulate Dr. McHugh for being recognized as one of Nashville’s Top Doctors by Nashville Lifestyles Magazine. He has received Top Doctors recognition several years in the past, along with recognition from U.S. News & World Report and Castle Connolly. He is a board-certified pain management and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician
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Procedure Spotlight: Discography
Back pain is always frustrating. It can be even worse when you don’t know the cause. Fortunately, there’s an interventional procedure that can help diagnose the cause of persistent, severe back pain. Learn more about discography.
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Procedure Spotlight: Epidural Steroid Injection (ESI)
An ESI is a common, minimally invasive procedure that involves the injection of both a local anesthetic and a steroid medication into the lowest portion of the epidural space to help reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Who is a candidate?…
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Procedure Spotlight: Radiofrequency Ablation
Our spotlight procedure for May is the Radiofrequency Ablation. This minimally-invasive procedure is most commonly offered to patients with neck or back pain from facet joint problems like arthritis or injury and reduces or eliminates the pain of damaged facet joints by disrupting the medial branch nerves that carry the pain signals.
