Pain Management Insights
Expert articles on chronic pain, treatment options, and living well — from the specialists at Newport Pain Management
Pain Management Blog — Newport Pain Management
29 posts
Welcome to the Newport Pain Management Blog: Why We've Spent 30 Years Treating Pain Without Leaning on Opioids
Dr. H. Rand Scott, MD explains the philosophy behind Newport Pain Management's multimodal, non-opioid-first approach to chronic pain — and why the medical world has spent a decade catching up to what this practice has done since 1996.
Can Walking Cause Back Pain? The Overlooked Role of Your Gait
Chronic back pain that no treatment touches may be driven by how you walk. The overlooked gait-and-back connection, and what helps when spine-directed care hasn't.
Antiseizure and Antiarrhythmic Medications for Neuropathic Pain
Gabapentin, pregabalin, carbamazepine, mexiletine — medications developed for seizures and heart rhythm now central to nerve pain treatment. How they work and what to expect.
Acute Low Back Pain FAQs: What to Do When Your Back Goes Out
What causes it, which warning signs matter, when to skip the imaging, and what actually helps recovery — the acute back pain questions patients ask most.
Antidepressants for Pain Control: How and Why They Work
Certain antidepressants relieve pain directly — through the same neurotransmitters the body uses to dampen pain signals. Which drugs, which conditions, and what to expect.
Chronic Abdominal Pain
Chronic abdominal pain that has eluded diagnosis — from nerve entrapment to pancreatitis — and the interventional treatments that can help when other doctors have run out of ideas.
Cancer Pain Can Be Controlled: A Patient and Family Guide
Most cancer pain can be controlled — yet it remains under-treated. A pain specialist on medications, nerve blocks, and the interventional options that succeed where pills fail.
Breaking the Pain Cycle
Chronic pain has a cruel talent: it feeds itself. Six stages of the pain cycle — and why breaking the cycle anywhere weakens it everywhere.
Body Mechanics and Posture: Protecting Your Back All Day and Night
You're in some posture every moment of the day and night, and each one either protects your spine or slowly stresses it. The three postures that matter most, and how to lift without paying for it.
Adaptive Equipment for Living with Chronic Back Pain
The right equipment can be the difference between joining life and sitting it out. Practical tools that keep chronic back pain patients active, from everyday to specialized.