Pain Management

Pain can interfere with your ability to work or enjoy your free time. Unrelenting pain can even cause mental health problems. If you need help managing pain, visit Jill Becker, MD, at Apex Medical Wellness in Brockton, Massachusetts. Dr. Becker offers specialized pain management medications, including cannabis and buprenorphine, to qualifying patients. Call Apex Medical Wellness today or request a consultation online to learn more about pain management.

What is pain management?

Pain management helps you cope with chronic (long-term) pain. Living with pain for months and years is exhausting and stressful. People with chronic pain conditions can have higher rates of mental health problems like depression, anxiety, and substance use disorder.

The pain might be due to an incurable illness, be severe, or both. Apex Medical Wellness offers compassionate, effective pain management support that minimizes discomfort and helps you lead a more rewarding, enjoyable life.

Who benefits from pain management?

Anyone who suffers from pain can benefit from pain management. Conditions that often cause chronic pain include:

• Arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Herniated discs (ruptured discs)
• Spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal)
• Neuropathy (nerve dysfunction)
• Cancer
• Degenerative disc disease
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Sciatica
• Migraines
• Trigeminal and occipital neuralgia (facial pain)

Chemotherapy treatment for cancer can also cause pain and other side effects.

Various treatments are available for people with chronic pain. If your pain is still unmanageable, you might find that the medications Dr. Becker offers at Apex Medical Wellness can help.

What helps with chronic pain?

Apex Medical Wellness uses two types of pain management medicines:

Buprenorphine based medications, such as Suboxone®

Suboxone contains buprenorphine, a drug that can offer some pain-relieving benefits. Apex Medical Wellness also uses these medications to help people overcome Opioid Use Disorder.

Cannabis medicine

Cannabis (commonly called marijuana) medicine is available if you have a qualifying condition iin Massachusetts and some other states. You have to visit a certifying health care provider like Dr. Becker to get approval.

Call Apex Medical Wellness today or request an appointment online to learn how you can benefit from these pain management treatments.