The pain success rate also known as pain treatment success rate and pain relief success rate for any pain treatment is defined as the number of patients successfully getting rid of at least 50% of their initial pain symptoms after a specific pain treatment whether it be surgical, injection or other minimally invasive treatments such as laser treatments. An accepted rate is 50% of patients treated get at least 50% of their initial pain symptoms relieved. The latter is the gold standard of many clinical trials testing the effectiveness of numerous pain treatments. We are proud to note that at Advanced Interventional Pain Center, our success rate after treating 3000 individual patients without using any narcotics or addictive medications, is over 90% of patients getting 100% or complete pain relief with only 10% of the patients getting less than 100% or incomplete pain relief.

Evidence presented here is based on real world data (RWD) witnessed, evidenced and recorded in our extensive case series analysis wherein adhering to strict treatment methodology have resulted in outstanding reproduceable treatment successes for the same pain condition.  Elsewhere, the use of measurement scales found in numerous research papers exemplify incremental pain treatment results of certain devices and drugs only on paper with no real world evidence leading to poor patient satisfaction and treatment failures. On the contrary, AIPC relies on RWD that result in outstanding pain relief and patient satisfaction through personal attention to every patient presenting for pain care.

Our pain treatments provide long lasting pain relief in a variety of conditions and permanent pain relief in certain tough to treat pain conditions for which there is no known cure nationally or internationally. Our pain center is one of the very few facilities in the world that can effectively treat failed surgical treatments resulting in long term pain relief while reversing the pain related disability caused by the surgery itself. Addictive drugs are never required for any of our pain treatments. Call the toll free number above or 727-474-6507 to make appointments. Our e-mail: referrals@inter-pain.com. To get a PDF of our pain treatment success rate and the various pain conditions we treat click this link:https://inter-pain.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Nations-top-pain-center-trivia.pdf See comprehensive information below for individual pain conditions:

AIPC pain treatments provide long lasting pain relief in a variety of conditions and permanent pain relief in certain tough to treat pain conditions for which there is no known cure nationally or internationally. Our pain center is one of the very few facilities in the world that can effectively treat failed surgical treatments resulting in long term pain relief while reversing the pain related disability caused by the surgery itself. Addictive drugs are never required for any of our pain treatments.

Treatment success rate at Advanced Interventional Pain Center = 90% or more. Patients who were non-compliant with the treatment program (unable to quit smoking, unable to quit marijuana use, not keeping with the follow-up appointments etc.) were not included. Narcotic Medications were NOT used in the treatment program.
National and International Average for pain treatment success = 50% or less.
No. of patients seen for the non painful conditions are very few to suggest the same degree of success in others with the same condition. NOTE: ALMOST ALL RESULTS ARE BASED ON A SINGLE TREATMENT SESSION FOR AN INDIVIDUAL ANATOMICAL PAIN FOCUS USING PROPRIETARY INJECTION TREATMENT METHODS. Use of LILA® laser in any failed focal pain condition results in permanent pain relief lasting for several years without recurrence.
 

Patients who are heavy tobacco users (whether chewing or smoking) do not receive long term pain relief as seen in non-tobacco users. Pain relief in tobacco smokers has been quantified by Advanced Interventional Pain Center (AIPC). For e.g. those who smoke ½ pack per day (10 cigarettes), the pain relief period following therapeutic facet injections is around 6 weeks, at which time these patients note return of pain symptoms. Those who smoke a pack per day note that pain relief is not sustained beyond 3 weeks. Heavy smokers who smoke 2-3 packs per day are not expected to get any pain relief from interventional pain procedures beyond a few days. IT IS ALSO THE OBSERVATION OF AIPC THAT SPOUSES OF NON SMOKERS ARE AT RISK OF INHALING AT LEAST 1/2 OF A SMOKER’S TOBACCO INTAKE. This fact is further evidenced when house hold members of heavy smokers seek pain treatments at AIPC and experience poor pain relief after pain interventions characteristic of tobacco smokers. FEMALE SMOKERS ARE TWICE AS VULNERABLE AS MALE SMOKERS. For e.g. females who smoke 1/2 pack of cigarettes have poor pain relief outcomes equivalent to that of a male smoker who smokes 1 pack per day.

A similar trend is also noted in those who smoke cannabis or marijuana with lack of long term pain relief following interventional pain procedures. AIPC is however, yet to quantify the latter due to a small number of patients presented at AIPC who smoke marijuana.

The absence of long term pain relief following therapeutic injections in the aforementioned patients is due to lack of vasodilatation needed to heal the injured or inflamed anatomic pain generator following an injection. Tobacco induced vasoconstriction prevents healing and repair of the inflammatory pain focus often resulting in return of pain symptoms. Unfortunately, tobacco users with chronic pain think their pain can be cured or mitigated without tobacco cessation by undergoing highly invasive procedures under anesthesia such as open back surgery, laminectomy with or without posterior rod fixation. This line of thinking is wrong as higher the invasiveness, even worse is the outcome. A larger incision requires more blood flow to heal which a smoker is not capable of providing. Their immediate post operative pain relief is often confounded with the use of heavy narcotic and other addictive medications which have no relation to the surgical treatments they had received for pain relief. Instead of mandating tobacco cessation, often these patients are recommended spinal cord stimulators (SCS) as the next step, which also subsequently fail to provide any long term pain relief.

Along the same lines, patients with severe systemic disease such as diabetics with hearing loss, those with severe underlying cardiovascular, renal or neurological disease and those with auto immune disorders fail to improve with drug based pain interventions due to the lack of ability to improve blood flow to the treated anatomic pain generator. Unlike tobacco users however,  they may respond to ablative treatments.

Unfortunately, tobacco users do not respond to any interventional or invasive pain treatment modality including ablative treatments, unless tobacco cessation has been achieved in full, at least 48 hours before procedural treatments and maintained indefinitely thereafter. AIPC has observed long term pain relief and permanent relief characteristic of non-tobacco users in patients who have discontinued tobacco use before commencement of interventional pain procedures and refrained from using tobacco thereafter. Advanced Interventional Pain Center strongly advocates for the cessation of all tobacco products as they consistently undermine the health of an individual on multiple fronts.