The Center for Pain Management Provides Services for the Following Referrals:
- Chronic cancer - related pain
- TMJ disorders
- Chronic back and neck pain
- Headache
- Spinal injury pain
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Pain after stroke
- Fibromyalgia
- Causalgia
- Shingles
- Phantom limb pain
- Nerve injury
- Neuropathic pain/peripheral neuropathy
- Myofascial pain
- Post-surgical pain
- Pain after multiple trauma
Rehabilitation Services:
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Adaptive exercise class
- Pool therapy program
- Body mechanics
- Manual therapies
- Functional work capacity assessment
- Working harder
- See rehabilitation
Procedures:
- Epidural steroid injections
- Facet blocks
- Intrathecal drug delivery systems
- Selective nerve root block
- Joint injections
- Celiac plexus block
- Lumbar sympathetic block
- Stellate ganglion block
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Neurolytic procedures
- Trigger point injections
- Acupuncture
- Electrotherapy (including TENS)
- Fluoroscopic guidance (when appropriate)
- Radiofrequency ablation
Psychological intervention is also a utilized service at the Center for Pain Management. Patients learn coping skills and other strategies to reduce secondary effects of pain. Such skills include:
- Muscle tension and depression
- Biofeedback/relaxation
- Individual and family counseling
- Cognitive techniques
- Visual imagery
