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Pain Management

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Pain Management

What is Pain Management?

Pain management is a specialized medical practice that evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and prevents acute or chronic pain. Instead of masking symptoms, our pain management doctors’ goal is to identify the root cause of your discomfort (injury, surgery, whiplash, nerve damage, etc.) and craft a personalized treatment plan to provide relief and improve quality of life, minimizing reliance on medication. Pain management treatments include:

  • Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks
  • Epidural steroid injections (ESI)
  • Facet injections and medial branch blocks
  • SacroIliac (SI Joint) injections
  • TENS
  • Trigger Point Therapies
  • Large and small joint injections (ranging from shoulders and knees to fingers and toes)

Who is it For?

Pain management can be incredibly helpful for chronic pain sufferers, such as those with persistent back, neck, or joint pain. It can also assist patients who have been in a car accident to recover from their ordeal and regain mobility safely. Soft-tissue damage (such as muscle sprains or ligament sprains), whiplash injuries, and herniated discs in particular may need specialized care from a pain management doctor for more efficient recovery.

Benefits of Pain Management

Pain management treatment can provide a host of benefits, both physical and mental. Not only does it typically accelerate recovery post-injury, but pain management specialists focus on ways to offer relief without reliance on pain medication that could potentially be addictive or have other side effects. This means guided physical therapy to restore full range of motion, targeted injections to reduce inflammation, and more. For those who have been in accidents, it can be difficult to know exactly what is causing your pain — however, our pain management doctors are trained in identifying injuries sustained from crashes, and will use imaging techniques like X-rays or MRIs to ensure that you get the proper treatment.

We’re with you every step of the way.

After an accident or injury, we’re here to help you get back on track. We team up to help heal you up, with comprehensive care so you can get back to what matters most.

Head-to-Toe Care
Fewer Roadblocks
True Convenience

Head-to-Toe Care

We provide specialist care, from medical intake and pain management to orthopedic, chiropractic, neurology, counseling, and more.

Award-Winning Care

Recognized for excellence in injury care, we’re proud to provide the best for our patients.

Pain Management FAQs

What does a pain management doctor do?

Our pain management specialists are board-certified in pain medicine and have extensive experience treating chronic and acute pain. Our doctors will diagnose and treat conditions such as chronic back pain, acute joint pain, and assisting post-surgery recovery. Pain management doctors use a variety of methods to accelerate healing, such as physical therapy, interventional therapies, lifestyle changes, nerve stimulators, and occasionally targeted injections or medications.

What happens at your first pain management appointment?

Our pain management doctors will typically start by reviewing your symptoms. If this was a car accident, they’ll want to know information about the speed, impact direction, seat position, and how your symptoms started. From there, they’ll conduct a detailed physical exam to identify areas of trauma. If necessary, your doctor may recommend conducting imaging like X-rays or MRIs. If the doctor has enough information to make a diagnosis in this appointment, they will do so and recommend a personalized treatment plan, working with you to set goals.

How should you prepare for a pain management appointment?

We recommend bringing any medical (and, if relevant, accident) records such as imaging, previous treatment notes, and a list of medications. Before your appointment, it’s helpful to document your symptoms like pain severity (0-10 scale), stiffness, activities that worsen (or relieve) your symptoms, and if any of these change over time. Consider what you want to get out of this appointment — for chronic pain sufferers, this might be reducing daily pain, while for crash victims, this might be improving neck mobility.

How often should you go to pain management?

This will depend on the severity of your pain, but we generally recommend that patients visit their pain management clinic weekly in the initial phase (first 6-8 weeks) to allow for close monitoring. After that, patients often shift to once or twice per month, eventually reducing to check-ins as-needed once goals are reached.