Body Aches & Pain Diagnosis

When you have constant pain and body aches, there must be a reason for it. If you and your pain management specialist cannot determine your reasons for discomfort, there are other measures he can use to evaluate pain. Diagnosis of your discomfort will ultimately help pinpoint the best way you can reasonably treat and live with your pain. Assessment of your body aches can be done verbally by reviewing your history, but the most thorough option is by implementing certain tools to help narrow down the possible sources of pain.

Some of the various medical tools used in modern day pain assessment can be the biggest factors in your analysis. Along with common x-rays, it’s common for your pain management specialist to use:

• CT Scans, which capture numerous images of cross-sections of your body.
• An MRI, which takes dozens of pictures without using x-rays.
• Bone Scans, which take pictures of the bones to determine if they’re the cause of pain.
• Ultrasound Scans, which use radio waves to capture the body’s images.

Other thorough methods of pain assessment include complex questionnaires about your family’s medical history, your personal records of injuries, and determining what you’ve done in the past to treat your body aches which haven’t worked out desirably. The best venue for a full pain assessment and pain diagnosis come from the use of the medical tools listed above. If you have constant pain and access to using these advanced tools, it is advisable to use them.