Novus Spine & Pain Center’s Doctor Benito Torres is an award-winning Lakeland, Florida, pain doctor. Pain, whether brought on by injury or illness, is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that can be debilitating. The management of pain is not a “one size fits all” condition. Treating pain requires a thorough patient evaluation for the most effective treatment plan.
Through a comprehensive approach to managing pain and using cutting-edge therapies, the Lakeland, Florida pain doctor offers many different treatment options to help each patient while minimizing the need for opiates.
What the Lakeland, Florida, Pain Doctor Does
While a primary care doctor can and should help patients treat pain, for advanced types of pain, the patient is often referred to a “pain doctor” or “pain specialist.” A pain doctor is a medical doctor (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathy (D.O.) who specializes in pain medicine and has additional training in the management of pain after completing their general residency.
Most often, pain doctors coordinate treatment and provide ongoing care for chronic pain patients who experience symptoms for three months or longer. A pain doctor understands pain physiology and uses specialized testing to diagnose complex pain conditions and then prescribes medications and therapies to treat the pain.
Although opioids can treat some types of pain, they are not the first line of treatment at Novus Spine & Pain Center in Lakeland, Florida. Instead, Dr. Torres employs minimally invasive procedures like nerve blocks, spinal injections, physical therapy, and non-narcotic therapies to help relieve, reduce, or manage pain and allow patients to return to everyday activities.
The goal of the Lakeland, Florida, pain doctor is to maintain their patient’s ability to function and overall quality of life. To that end, the whole patient receives treatment, not just one part of the body.
What is a Pain Doctor’s Training?
Pain doctors coordinate a high-level, multidisciplinary treatment approach for patients experiencing acute or chronic pain. All pain doctors have received interdisciplinary subspecialty certification by the Boards of Anesthesiology, Psychiatry & Neurology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Pain doctors are board-certified in their specialty and have undergone extensive training to evaluate, diagnose, treat, and help prevent many different types of pain. Board certification is a rigorous process signifying a physician has achieved a certain level of expertise. As a board-certified pain doctor, Dr. Torres has met the additional training requirements to assure his patients he has met all the requirements to be a certified pain doctor.
Since medicine is an ever-evolving field, the learning does not stop once a pain doctor becomes board certified. Therefore, ABPMR board-certified physicians, like Dr. Torres, follow a rigorous schedule to maintain their certification, including continuing education.
Common Pain Issues Treated
Unfortunately, there is not a single procedure for curing every pain. However, several minimally invasive procedures are available that can help relieve even chronic pain.
The objective of treating any pain is to focus on the source and not just mask the symptoms. It is especially true with chronic pain; there are times when eliminating the pain source may not be possible. The three main goals in treating pain are to:
- Reduce the symptoms.
- Allow the patient to remain active.
- Maintain the patient’s ability to perform daily tasks.
Some of the pain conditions treated by the Lakeland, Florida pain doctor include:
Please visit our Pain Conditions page for information about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of pain conditions we frequently treat at Novus Spine & Pain Center.
Novus Spine & Pain Center
Since 2018, Novus Spine & Pain Center has been recognized as the “Best of Central Florida” in Polk County’s Official Community Choice Awards from the Ledger Media Group. The annual awards recognize local businesses and organizations in several categories, including Best Vascular/Vein Clinic and Best Pain Management Clinic. Dr. Torres, a prominent pain doctor, leads the award-winning Novus Spine & Pain Center.
Board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine through the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Dr. Torres is on the faculty of the Department of Anesthesia at Moffitt Cancer Center. He also received an Academic appointment as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of South Florida and the Department of Neurology. He also worked directly with residents, medical students, and pain medicine fellows.
As a leading Lakeland, Florida pain doctor, Dr. Torres specializes in minimally invasive procedures, physical therapy, and non-narcotic therapies for managing both chronic pain and the pain resulting from acute headaches, arthritis, back pain, cancer pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, sciatica, and scoliosis, shingles, whiplash, and much more.
Our Patients Say It Best
The Lakeland, Florida Pain Doctor is honored that our patients have rewarded Novus Spine & Pain Center with great comments on Facebook Recommendations & Reviews and Google Reviews.
About Novus Spine & Pain Center
Novus Spine & Pain Center is the preeminent Lakeland, Florida Pain Doctor. The Center’s office hours are 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM Monday – Thursday, and Fridays from 8:00 AM until Noon.
If you have a question, comment, or request, please fill out our contact form, or call us at 863-473-7849. You may request a callback if you would like us to call you during the Center’s regular hours. For your convenience, you may also schedule an appointment online.
There is no obligation when you contact us, and any information you provide us is always kept strictly confidential.
One Patient’s Journey to Chronic Pain Relief at Novus Spine & Pain Center
Discover how Novus Spine & Pain Center helped a patient with pain so severe it rendered him unable to walk.
“I am capable of moving, play with the dog, play with my grandkids. I was unable to do any of that before.”
-Bill
Discover how Novus Spine & Pain Center helped stop the chronic pain one patient was suffering from that put her in the hospital.
After seeing multiple physicians and after being hospitalized, and after a month now of dealing with this, my daughter said to me, “Hey, you need to make a change. You need to see Dr. Torres at Novus Spine and Pain Center.”
-Jeanette