Pain Management Services

Controlling pain is one of the greatest challenges of the healthcare system. Our Pain Management Program is operated by the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management. The providers from the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) and have advanced education in pain management. CRNAs are advanced practice registered nurses with graduate-level education in anesthesia. FMDH’s Department of Surgical Services staff assists with the program and has training in chronic pain management. The program is multidisciplinary to address your pain on several levels.

Multidisciplinary Pain Management

Pain affects many aspects of life, including how we feel, think, work, and play, and it often limits social interaction. Pain can cause physical and emotional changes in our bodies, too. Our multidisciplinary pain management approach attempts to address different aspects of life that have been affected by pain. This approach elicits the best advice and treatment from specialists in each area.

Our CRNA may provide specific interventions to break the pain cycle or control the pain. Our physical therapist may assist in increasing muscle strength and flexibility, and a physician may prescribe treatments and medications to limit diseases that may be the origin of the pain. A psychologist or social worker may assist in dealing with the stress of chronic pain and its impact on life.

The Pain Management Program is an interventional pain program. We help treat your pain primarily with injections. The most common procedures we perform are epidural steroid injections. Other procedures we perform include facet joint injections, select nerve root blocks, sacroiliac joint injections, and other various anesthesia nerve blocks. These spinal injections can be delivered at all levels of the spine, from the neck to the tailbone.