A new wave of pain management – 2 Qs with Dr. Niteesh Bharara

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Niteesh Bharara, MD, is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician and the director of regenerative medicine at Virginia Spine Institute in Reston.

Dr. Bharara is a featured speaker at the Becker's 17th Annual Future of Spine + The Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, June 13-15 in Chicago. Click here to learn more and register. For more information about exhibitor and sponsor opportunities, contact Maura Jodoin at mjodoin@beckershealthcare.com.

Dr. Bharara recently spoke with Becker's Spine Review about trends in interventional pain management and evolving neuromodulation techniques.

Question: What trends do you see in interventional pain management?

Dr. Niteesh Bharara: The current trend in interventional pain is physicians moving away from offering only palliative treatments for pain and toward treating the root cause of the problem. With the emergence of regenerative medicine therapies, physicians have the ability to naturally approach pathology, treating it in a manner that maximizes true long-term benefit for the patient. Unlike current treatments with steroid injections, medications and physical therapy, regenerative therapies and treatments target and repair our body's damaged tissues in order to minimize and eliminate pain.

Q: What are the most promising developments in your field?

NB: Neuromodulation is an advanced pain management therapy for patients with chronic, refractory pain. With advances in neuromodulation wave forms, physicians have been able to treat different types of pain with and without parasthesias. This allows physicians to finally treat patients they have not been able to help before.

Also, with the development of peripheral nerve stimulation, we can isolate the treatment of neuromodulation to a specific area of the body instead of a generalized area that physicians could instead treat with traditional neuromodulation.

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