Living With Nerve Pain: How We Can Help You Reclaim Your Life

Nerve pain can be insidious, creating sensations like burning, electric shocks, numbness, radiating, shooting, or tingling, and occasionally a combination of these. 

Your pain can affect your sleep, the way you move, and how you do your job or take care of yourself and your family. 

Maher Fattouh, MD, and Anastasia Yorkman, FNP-BC, of Midwest Innovative Pain Management in Dyer, Indiana, specialize in identifying and treating nerve pain, which can often be complex and hard to source. 

Regardless of the cause, there’s no reason you should simply live with pain without a medical evaluation. 

Sources of nerve pain

Nerve pain, medically referred to as neuropathic pain or neuralgia, generally traces back to compression, damage, or irritation of nerve tissue, though sometimes, cases are idiopathic, meaning they have no observable cause. 

Some of the more common reasons you may be experiencing nerve pain include: 

• Diabetic neuropathy
• Degenerative or herniated spinal discs
• Damage from surgery or trauma
• Spinal stenosis
• Pinched nerves
• Systemic and local conditions like autoimmune disorders or shingles

Whenever possible, it’s important to accurately identify the source of your nerve pain, since symptoms are sometimes shared. Treating the wrong condition may be ineffective at relieving your pain. 

Approaching nerve pain management

Focused on compassionate and comprehensive care, we recommend pain management plans that address both causes and symptoms, whenever possible. 

Building your nerve pain management plan depends on the factors that drive your condition. These can include how long you’ve had the pain, its location, and its severity, as well as understanding its root cause. We may recommend therapies such as: 

• Targeted pain medication
• Therapeutic nerve blocks and other interventional modalities
• Occupational and physical therapy, exercises, and movement-based strategies
• Lifestyle adjustments
• Self-management strategies

An effective treatment plan may include an orchestrated combination of approaches, each contributing to improved function and quality of life. 

Effective pain management is never fully about pain. In many cases, practical targets drive your care — things like better sleep, walking farther, expanding your personal bests in exercise, and returning to work or a favorite hobby, virtually any aspect that can be seen as progress. 

When to investigate nerve pain management

When your nerve pain symptoms don’t settle down, or when they get worse, it’s time to book a consultation with us for a professional evaluation. 

New signs of nerve dysfunction — like numbness, weakness, or changes to body functions like bladder or bowel performance — are also signs it’s time for medical investigation. 

Don’t wait for pain to dominate your life. Contact us at Midwest Innovative Pain Management to learn more about our nerve pain solutions. Call 219-235-3148 or click here to book your visit today.