The Pain Management Group: Centennial - Pain Management in Nashville, Tennessee

“I'm always nervous when I have to start over with a new Doctor because of my complicated medical history. I always go to the clinic website and read reviews and when I read the reviews I was side eyeing and was nervous as I stated previously. I like to get to know the Doctor for myself. When Dr. McHugh walked in he was pleasant, he walked in with a smile and he spoke me like a human being. We were cracking jokes and everything, things that I didn't understand he took the time out to explain it to me. People need to understand Doctors are human too so we are all entitled to a bad day.”

— Tina Ward

“49 surgeries general anesthesia 2 urethroplasty transplants 1 suprapubic catheter several months 1 parathyroidectomy End stage arthritis in right foot Frozen shoulder Hiatal hernia Hashimotos stage 2 Fibromyalgia Post menopausal Chronic kidney disease stage 3b Misdiagnoses with implanted batteries and interstem device that almost killed me Hypercalcemia, hyperparathyroidism Severe lethargy from comorbid pain Ocular migraines Sensitivity to light Shattered left foot requiring pins with 2 reconstructive surgeries Every day I wake up I have pain in every part of my body. I've always been a very productive, highly effective person. Pain management enables me to work at some capacity, not full time unfortunately, but it enables me to move, think, breath which lessens the anxiety, fear and depression I experience on a daily basis, common for those who've experienced long term, multiple, life threatening medical trauma...acute trauma as well as chronic. I have a recent B.A. in psychology, studied Health Psychology & Medical Sociology at the 400 level. Different people respond to pain in various ways depending on multiple factors. Each individual's physiology can greatly differ. CIPA or congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis is a condition where somebody cannot feel any pain. They could jump off a building, break both legs, rupture their spleen and not feel a thing. Most of these people don't live past their early twenties at best. On the other end of the spectrum, there are also people who experience pain more diversely and prolifically, as has been studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In addition to our endocrine, nervous & parasympathetic nervous and neurological systems as well as other biological factors, some people feel pain way more intensely than the average person. Conditions for example like neuropathy, which can sometimes be cured with simple steroid treatment, but not every pain can be eliminated or mitigated with a nerve block or steroid treatment or other non-narcotic pain medications and treatment including surgery. Until you walk a mile in a person's shoes, it is beyond presumptuous to assume that anybody who takes pain medication is addicted to pain medication. In fact, to think that way is not only ignorant, it is cruel. This opioid crisis is happening because not enough people are being prescribed pain medications they need in order to not only function but just to wake up everyday and not cry from the moment they wake up till the moment they go to sleep from pain and how it changes a person's entire life. When people do not get properly treated for pain, that is when they start seeking medication in non-conventional ways and that's when they unfortunately come across street drugs that have been cut with fentanyl. This opioid crisis is not happening from the over-prescribing of pain medications. It's much broader and more complex than that. Many overdoses are happening because patients, or people who are suffering from chronic pain, are self-medicating because they are unable to access pain management either because of their financial situation or because they simply live where there is no access to responsible, compassionate pain management. It is incredibly difficult to be responsible for even the most educated and safest pain management clinics and their providers because of the opioid crisis. To be a pain management provider, clinics are a highly criticized area of medicine that in and of itself is part of the opioid crisis. The less pain management clinics and the less pain management providers we have, the more overdosing and accidental overdoses we're going to see because people are going to be self-medicating if they are unable to obtain professional pain management due to either financial hardship or not being able to access it because of their location. To say I am grateful that I have access to a responsible and compassionate pain management provider would be the greatest understatement of my entire life.”

— Jennifer Esther Brown

“I had an appointment at 10:15. They called me back and I had to set in the exam room for an hour. No explanation not even a sorry you've been waiting so long. I'm not happy with the waiting.”

— Wanda carney

“I had my 1st visit on 4/15/24 at the Pain Center. Upon being called back from the waiting area the nurse tech found a bedbug on the back my shirt. I'm totally upset and totally disgusted. The tech stated a patient got bite a couple of weeks ago and she thought they sprayed; well apparently not. The sad thing the tech got bit this morning as well. When I told the doctor Daniel McHugh about the bedbug and me getting bite him and his assistant showed no concern given. Not to mention his bedside manners were blah. They need to have that place fumigated. The nurse tech doesn't work in the waiting room but where the patients are seen so how did she get bite???”

— Molly Beasley