PainCare - Pain Management in New Hampshire

Your pain is unique. Because the perception and tolerance of pain varies widely from one individual to another, pain can be difficult to define. Only you can say where your pain is located, how it feels, and how impactful it is to your routine function.

Following injury to our tissues, pain is an immediate, protective friend, guarding us from, and hopefully preventing, further harm or damage. But if this important warning signal does not abate despite the healing process, the persistent chronic pain often becomes a disease unto itself, promoting a gradual unrelenting decline in function, emotional and social well being and sensitizing the entire body to the ravages of future injury. This is why early aggressive care of severe pain is so important." -- Michael J. O'Connell, MD, CEO, PainCare

Pain can prevent you from enjoying the simple pleasures in life, like a good night's sleep, a walk on the beach or enjoying family and friends. It is not only a physical challenge but can also affect one's mental, social, economic, and spiritual health. Persistent pain is often accompanied by depression or anxiety.

Essentially, any new pain is the body's way of communicating that something may be wrong. The brain receives information from the body via pathways in the spinal cord and nerves, all of which end in thousands of tiny receptor nerve cells in and within the skin, bone and muscle sensing heat, cold, light, touch, pressure, and pain.

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