Chronic Pain treatment with Medical Massage

The diagnostic pain testing can give better results of medical massage therapy. A massage therapist can only diagnose and tell what chronic pain treatment does a patient need without a diagnostic pain assessment testing.

Pain Assessment and Diagnosis

Pain assessment uses diagnostic testing but it does not mean that they are the same thing. A diagnosis is the identification given by a doctor for a medical condition. Pain assessment is a diagnosis of a medical condition that is evaluated for a proper treatment accordingly. So we can say that diagnosis is a part of pain assessment that includes other parts like gathering of information, evaluation of the problem and its treatment. Pain assessment is not the same for all the body parts.

Information needed by a pain clinic

A pain clinic needs the following information for pain assessment:

• Patient