He believes a multidisciplinary approach is the way to tackle the problem. Every chronic pain is a combination pain and requires a multiple treatment plan. You have to figure out the pieces of the puzzle and solve those pieces individually. We break it down into different kinds of pain. There's bony pain throughout the back, and then there is also myofascial pain in the muscles.
Chronic pain causes depression.
You can't do pain management without taking all the agents of pain into account. It's a pain soup. At Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., Stamatos began his training as one of the first residents to make pain management his specialty. Trained in anesthesiology, he realized that most of his patients were suffering after surgery because their pain was under-medicated. As patients recovered, they still had sources of pain that were undertreated.