LEBANON — In this case: No pain, all gain. Dr. Pattanam Srinivason — affectionately known by his patients as "Dr. Srini" — can recall that the most rewarding feeling he's experienced in his professional career came a few years ago when he helped a grandmother crippled with pain, enjoy a sit-down Thanksgiving party with her grandchildren.

"It's a feeling of joy, having been of help to an old lady who can now walk without pain," said Srinivasan, who also frequently cites the case of a 99-year-old woman with chronic pain in her right leg. "I was able to cure her, and she came back to my office dressed like a 20-year-old girl."

Srinivasan opened a Lebanon office last Month to bring his unique "improvisational" practice to Boone County patients at his Advanced Interventional Pain Center, located in the Lebanon Business Plaza. His technologically-advanced — and very vibrantly painted — facility has a complete procedure room with cutting-edge X-Ray imaging and C-ON surgical equipment. Here, Srinivasan makes his case with interventional, minimally-surgical methods that "take pain treatments into a new dimension: the dimension of cure," reads his office flyer.

But what sets Srinivasan's practice apart is his specialized and often untraditional diagnosis for many pain sufferers, many of whom have come to him frustrated with decades of all varieties of pain, he said. Of the 342 patients Srinivasan has treated in the last year at his former pain center in Frankfort, over 94 percent have been completely cured of pain-related ailments, while the national and international average success rate for pain treatment is closer to half that, he said. "When any patient walks in, I think of it like my mother or sister whom I'm treating," said Srinivasan, who currently operates another office in Kokomo. "We would like to tell people that if pain is there problem, come see us; many times people perceive that all pain is related to the hack. "Mainly, we're buying time and, in certain in- stances,we can prevent surgery, but we can almost always postpone surgery." Srinivasan is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist who completed his residency training at the University of Washington Srinivasan also has completed extensive international studies with the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, research at the Madras Medical College in India and has won awards and various honors in Russia, at the Donetsk Medical Institute. He was converted to a permanent resident of the United States after the Department of Justice recognized him as "a physician of exceptional talent," he said. Currently a practicing anesthesiologist at St. Vincent's Hospital in Frankfort, Srinivasan lives in Lebanon with his wife, Dharshini, and two sons, age 2 and 9. The elder of his sons attends a Lebanon elementary school.

Srinivasan said although his office has only been open locally for a month, he's already helped to transform pain sufferers with nagging woes into notable success stories. For instance,  a Lebanon woman who'd suffered complicated ankle pain for five years was cured in two weeks after Srinivasan targeted a specific complex of nerves; also, he noted, a school teacher who'd had an extreme thumb sprain after a student dropped a load of books on her hand experienced "100 percent relief ... after I used an improvisational procedure targeting the neck, blocking nerve fibers from the chest," he said. Srinivasan maintains that while pain problems among Americans are on the rise — an estimated 50 million suffer currently from back pain alone — interventional procedures remain a mostly  untapped medical practice. "A lot of physicians are put off by pain patients — a lot of symptoms, and usually very hard o treat," said Srinivasan. "But I empathize wife pain patients' feelings, and I know how to he them." Dr, Srinivasan offers free screening evaluations for all pain patients. For appointments, which are typically scheduled Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

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