Our Specialtie
Pain Medicine
Pain medicine specialty is responsible for understanding and studying the mechanism underlying patient pain. Pain is defined by the ISAP (International Association for the Study of Pain) as: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”. So, pain is an experience, not just a simple symptom, and can be multifactorial – nociceptive, neurogenic and psychogenic. For that reason, the holistic assessment of the patient is crucial to understand the mechanism of pain and to treat it properly. The non-surgical treatments could include pharmacological medication, minimally invasive procedures and physiotherapy.
The
Doctor

Dr. Miguel Costa