Diagnostic Consultations

Diagnostic Consultations by Dr. Vivek Loomba

 

Diagnostic consultation is the creation of customized treatment plans for individual patients. It helps to identify the chronic pain in diagnosis resulting from injury, surgery, illnesses, musculoskeletal problems, and cancer. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach such as complimentary and conventional approaches for treating patient symptoms by assessing your health as a whole. The main goal is to deliver different types of treatments for patients’ chronic pain relief.

Diagnostic Consultation is performed to Review –

  • Families Medical History
  • Social history 
  • Lifestyle Factors
  • X-rays 
  • Appropriate Clinical Examination
  • Diagnostic Tests (Blood, scans, x-rays)
  • Capnography
  • Films
  • MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
  • Other Tests to diagnose 
  • Chronic Pain Symptoms
  • Past and Present Treatment Medications

Benefits of Diagnostic Consultations

Diagnostic consultations help in analyzing a person’s illness and symptoms on the basis of complexity at the chronic level. It provides effective diagnosis by a thorough examination to determine treatment plans. 

  • Improvement in health – Chronic pain interferes with your daily activities which results in decreased quality of life, lower productivity, worsening of disease, and psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and fear. Consulting a pain management specialist helps in the evaluation of necessary procedures or ongoing treatment for improving the quality of life in patients.
  • Customized Treatment Plan – An individualized treatment plan is decided by a pain management specialist after evaluating the patient’s condition, pain, and personal preference. It also helps in finding the best fit for an individual to meet the patient’s emotional, social, and cognitive needs. 
  • Multidisciplinary approach – A combination approach is adapted for diagnostic procedures for significant improvement in health. It includes different types of therapies from radiation therapy, medical therapy, psychological therapy, and rehabilitation therapy. 

Diagnostic Examinations 

Diagnostic examinations help in identifying a person’s symptoms, illness, and other health conditions. The diagnostic examinations can be either invasive or non-invasive as per recommended by your clinic or an expert pain management doctor for your symptoms. The popular Diagnostic examinations performed in hospitals for determining various diseases are –

  • Sonography
  • MRI scans
  • Adult and children’s health checkups
  • Gastroscopy
  • Mammography
  • Rectoscopy
  • Radiography
  • Colonoscopy
  • CT diagnostics

We provide individualized treatment plans after proper diagnostic consultations with the help of well-equipped medical equipment. For that, an experienced radiologist, ultrasound specialist, endoscopist, and pain management specialist work closely to provide accurate information on the patient’s health condition. This detailed information helps an expert pain doctor in providing effective diagnostic solutions to eliminate a patient’s problem with care.