Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)

What is Pain Medicine?

Since the sensation of pain can vary from person to person and what helps relieve pain in one individual may not be as helpful to another, the practice of pain management uses an array of treatment methods. This is because the pain experienced can vary from mild to excruciating, episodic to continuous, and be inconvenient to completely incapacitating. If the pain is severe or is not going away, a pain management solution can be developed by a doctor experienced in pain management. Using skill and medical insights, pain management doctors listen to their patients then find solutions that will help the patient. Pain medicine physicians also have many injection-based tools to offer to help to ease painful conditions.

When to Plan a Visit?

• Joint pain that won’t go away
• Pain even when you’re not bearing weight on or using the affected joint
• Pain that intensifies at night or after bed
• Pain when bending or flexing a joint
• Shooting or stabbing pain that appears unexpectedly
• Numbness or tingling sensations that occur frequently or all the time, especially if associated with weakness
• Pain that occurs every time you perform a specific activity
• Dull pain that prevents you from the activities you love

What Conditions Could be Treated?

• • Arthritis
  • Chronic back pain
  • Chronic muscle or joint pain
  • Tendinitis
  • Bursitis
  • Chronic neck pain
  • Complex regional pain syndrome,
  • Headaches
  • Herniated discs
  • Radiculopathy (pain radiating down your limb from your back or neck)
  • Spinal nerve pain
  • Sports-related injury pain
  • Postsurgical pain
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Lumbosacral plexus injury
  • Pelvic floor pain
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Nerve entrapment
    • Carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, tarsal tunnel syndrome

What Procedures Our PM&R Physician’s Offer:

• Epidural steroid injections
  • Types: Interlaminar, transforaminal
  • Regions: Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, caudal
• Radiofrequency ablation (with diagnostic medial branch block prior to this)
  • Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, knee
• Peripheral nerve stimulation
• SI (sacroiliiac) joint injections
• Facet joint injections/cyst aspiration
• Peripheral nerve steroid injections
  • Occipital nerve, median nerve, sciatic, lateral femoral cutaneous
• Large joint steroid injections
  • Shoulder, hip, knee
• Bursa injections
  • Greater trochanteric, ischial, subacromial
• Ganglion impar block
• Trigger point injections