The specialty practice of pain management is a fairly new addition to the repertoire of the medical field. While there is an indispensable need for this expertise, with chronic pain affecting over 11% of the population each year, we realize this field requires vigilance, extensive clinical knowledge, and ethical responsibility on behalf of its physicians.

More importantly, our owner and leading physician, Dr. Edward Tavel knows this through his 25 years of experience working in this field since its beginning.

At Pain Specialists, our goal is to provide ETHICAL, SAFE, and EFFECTIVE pain management solutions to our patients. Ensuring safety in our pain management practice is paramount, starting with transparency and understanding.

Understanding the Chronic Pain Problem 

Chronic pain is a problem understood by an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Defined as pain that lasts over three months, it can be present at all times or come and go as it pleases. 

The most common types of chronic pain include: 

  • Arthritis 
  • Back pain 
  • Muscle pain (such as fibromyalgia) 
  • Nerve pain or damage 
  • Neck pain 
  • Headaches 

Chronic pain can be debilitating and often interferes with your ability to work, maintain a social life, and just take care of yourself and others. According to the CDC, chronic pain oftentimes can lead to bouts of depression, Alzheimer’s disease, a higher suicide risk, and substance use and subsequent misuse. 

The cycle of chronic pain, and its mental and physical toll on the mind and body, can be a difficult one to break…

But it’s not impossible… 

Sharing Responsibility: From Physician to Patient 

For people living with pain, it is common for relief to be found in medications. While they can provide much-needed relief to those in pain, the risks of abuse, misuse, addiction, overdose, or diversion continue to impact millions of people every year. 

We want our patients, both present and future, to understand that medications and surgery are not the only options for pain management near you. 

Interventional Pain Management

Our board-certified physicians use a multi-faceted approach to focus on long-term pain relief and rehabilitation through our interventional treatment options without the need for surgery or habit-forming drugs. 

Interventional pain management utilizes different tools and techniques to block the source of your pain. The most common types of treatments we offer include: 

  • Injections and nerve blocks 
  • Compression therapy 
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation 
  • Neuromodulation therapies 
  • Various forms of medical massage therapy 
  • And more

As the leading pain management clinic near you, we follow the guidelines set forth by the American Pain Society. Our program has been working towards making improvements to the quality of pain management practices for the past 10 years. Our aim as a whole is to: 

  • Recognize and treat pain promptly 
  • Involve patients and loved ones in their pain management plan
  • Improve treatment patterns
  • Adjust and reassess their pain management plan as needed
  • Monitor the process and outcomes of their treatment

A Promise from Pain Specialists of Charleston to You 

To ensure our patient’s safety, our practice holds ourselves to both, high regulatory and ethical standards in regard to our treatment and prescribing methods. Dr. Tavel and the rest of our pain management physician staff participate in mandatory DHEC training concerning the safe handling of controlled substances and contribute to a continuous, medical review dialogue within our practice.

We are proud to have Dr. Tavel represent our practice as a member of The Medical Safety Review Board for South Carolina. Dr. Tavel was recognized and selected for this position due to his strict operating guidelines employed within PSC and his conservative best practices for ensuring safe pain management treatment.

Our first concern is, and will always be, patient safety and satisfaction. 

For questions or concerns regarding our treatment methods or approach, please contact us. We welcome any feedback, comments, questions, or concerns on this very important and ongoing dialogue.