Dr. Patel, Pain Management Specialist returns to Noyes

 

After a nearly three-year absence, Dr. Chirag Patel is returning to Nicholas Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville.

“I have been gone for the last three years, but am excited to be back at Noyes,” said Patel. “I will primarily be seeing patients with chronic pain. They come into the office to get a formal evaluation, then we develop the treatment plan from there.”

Dr. Patel is currently seeing patients at his office located inside Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville. In the near future, he will be expanding his practice to St. James and Jones Memorial hospitals.

“We are incredibly grateful to have a pain management specialist of Dr. Patel’s caliber back at Noyes,” said Dr. Chad Teeters, president and CEO of Noyes Health. “Sharing his services with the Hornell and Wellsville areas will benefit a large population that otherwise would have to travel for pain management.”

Dr. Patel will be performing procedures in the operating room at Noyes, as well as at Noyes Health Services in Geneseo.

With the opioid crisis, some are concerned with visiting a pain management physician.

“With everything that has been happening lately with the opioid crisis, my specialty is interventional treatments, explained Dr. Patel. “There are many avenues to help people that don’t involve medication. I am a proponent of physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and chiropractic treatment. Sometimes simple exercises or injections can offer an incredible amount of relief.”

Dr. Patel likes to work with primary care providers, orthopedic surgeons, imaging, and other specialties to develop comprehensive plans to alleviate as much pain as possible.

“We don’t want people to be in severe pain, sometimes people will be in some sort of pain,” said Dr. Patel. “It is a part of getting older. But we don’t want anyone to suffer.”

He is also expanding to add a second provider so as the practice expands, patients don’t have extended waits times to get an appointment.

“We are trying to encompass a lot of patients who otherwise wouldn’t have anywhere to go to be seen or treated,” he said.