Pain Management as a specialty is concerned with the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of painful disorders. The diagnosis relies on a thorough history and pain-oriented physical examination, including interpretation of diagnostic tests, and may require specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
The simple answer is that he was not always as disabled as he is today. Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963. The doctors initially gave him two years to live but the disease's onset was not as rapid as they had expected. Two years later, he was still walking, albeit with a stick. Hawking was married to his first wife, Jane Wilde, on the 14th of July 1965.
And since 1985 he has had to speak through his trademark computer systemâwhich he operates with his cheekâand have around-the-clock care. But his disease seems hardly to have slowed him down. Hawking spent 30 years as a full professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. And he is currently the director of research at the school's Center for Theoretical Cosmology. But like his mind, Hawking's illness seems to be singular. Most patients with ALS âalso known as Lou Gehrig's disease, for the famous baseball player who succumbed to the diseaseâare diagnosed after the age of 50 and die within five years of their diagnosis.