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Why Insurance Companies Are Making It Harder for Patients to Get Care

Your doctor recommends a treatment. Then the letter arrives: “not medically necessary.” Here’s how prior authorization works, and how to push back.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team4 min readOct 12, 2026

GuideSponsored

Top 5 Pain Procedures Doctors Recommend

From epidural steroid injections to spinal cord stimulation, here’s what each procedure does, who it may help and what to expect.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 10, 2026

Guide Joint, Knee & Musculoskeletal PainSponsored

Knee Osteoarthritis: Why Moving Usually Helps, and When to Ask About More

Stiff first thing, sore after a long walk, better after a rest: the pattern of knee osteoarthritis, what helps, and the options to discuss if it is not enough.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 8, 2026

Guide Headache & Migraine PainSponsored

Migraine Is Not “Just a Headache”: Triggers, the Diary That Helps, and When to Ask for More

Throbbing pain, nausea, sensitivity to light — and often warning signs hours before. What migraine is, what sets it off, and when frequent attacks deserve a specialist.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 7, 2026

Guide Abdominal & Pelvic PainSponsored

Pelvic and Abdominal Pain That Will Not Go Away: Why It Takes a Team, and Where Pain Medicine Fits

Months of pain with periods, bladder filling or bowel movements is exhausting and often involves more than one specialist. Here is how the pieces fit together.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 6, 2026

Guide Urology & IncontinenceSponsored

Leaking When You Laugh, Running for the Bathroom: Bladder Problems Are Treatable — and Worth Mentioning

Stress, urge, overflow, mixed — the type of leakage points to its cause and its treatment. A plain-language guide, including what SEVA Healthcare offers in Dallas-Fort Worth.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team2 min readOct 5, 2026

Guide Nerve & Neuropathic PainSponsored

Burning Feet and Numb Toes: Understanding Peripheral Neuropathy

Tingling that starts in the toes, a burning that is worse at night, sheets that hurt — nerve pain has its own logic. What causes it, how it is assessed, and what helps.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 4, 2026

Guide Post-Surgical & Complex PainSponsored

When a Sprain Will Not Stop Hurting: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Explained

A minor fracture or sprain heals, but the arm or leg keeps burning and even light touch hurts. CRPS is uncommon, real, and better understood than it was.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team3 min readOct 3, 2026

Terminology

Words you will hear at a pain clinic

Interventional pain management: Targeted, image-guided procedures — injections, nerve blocks, ablation, implants — instead of medicines alone.
Image-guided: Done under live X-ray or ultrasound so the needle or device reaches exactly the right spot.
Diagnostic block: A test numbing injection. A few hours of relief confirms which nerve or joint is the source.
Radiculopathy: An irritated nerve root in the spine. Sciatica is radiculopathy in the leg.
Neuropathic pain: Pain from damaged or diseased nerves: burning, shooting or tingling.
Chronic pain: Pain lasting longer than about three months, or beyond the usual healing time.
Stimulator trial: A temporary test with external leads before a stimulator is implanted for good.
Prior authorization: Approval your insurer requires before it will cover a procedure.

Appointment preparation

Make your first visit count

1
Tell the storyWhen it started, what helps or hurts, and how it limits you.
2
Bring your recordsImaging reports, past procedures, therapy notes and a current medicine list.
3
List what you have triedIncluding over-the-counter remedies, and how well each worked.
4
Prepare your questionsSee “Questions to ask” on every treatment page.
5
Check your insuranceAsk whether a referral or prior authorization is needed. Our insurance guide explains it.
6
After an accidentBring the claim number and any attorney details. See accident care.

Living with pain

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Living With Pain Post-Surgical & Complex PainSponsored

The Good-Day Trap: Why Pacing Matters More Than Pushing Through

Doing too much on the good days and too little on the bad ones keeps many people stuck. Pacing is how you get steadier weeks.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team2 min readOct 12, 2026

Living With Pain Back & Neck PainSponsored

Pain Wrecks Sleep, and Poor Sleep Turns Up Pain. Here Is Where People Start

A bad night makes pain louder the next day, and pain makes the next night worse. Small, consistent changes are where most people begin.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team2 min readOct 11, 2026

Living With Pain Nerve & Neuropathic PainSponsored

Burning, Aching or Electric? How to Describe Pain So Your Clinician Can Act on It

The words you use for pain are not small talk; they help a clinician tell nerve pain from joint pain from muscle pain. Here is how to prepare.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team2 min readOct 10, 2026

Living With Pain Back & Neck PainSponsored

Fifteen Minutes With a Pain Specialist: How to Make Them Count

What to bring, what to write down beforehand, and the questions that get the most useful answers from a pain specialist.

SEVA Healthcare Editorial Team2 min readOct 9, 2026

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