Pain Management Services
Pain management physicians at North Shore Medical Center provide comprehensive care for individuals with acute, chronic, and cancer-related pain. Coordinated consultative services are available for patients referred for evaluation and for hospitalized patients. The focus is on early evaluation and intervention to minimize the development of chronic, disabling pain.
Program Overview
Individualized and comprehensive plans are devised for optimal pain treatment that will encourage each patient to return to an optimal level of function in his or her work and personal life.Treatments offered include:
- Epidural steroid injection
- Facet injections
- Sympathetic nerve blocks
- Radio frequency lesioning
- Botox injections
Conditions treated include:
- Back pain
- Chronic neck pain
- Diabetes-related pain
- Fibromyalgia
- HIV-related pain
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Ischemic-related pain
- Myofascial pain
- Neurogenic pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Post-laminectomy pain
- Post-mastectomy pain
- Post-operative pain
- Post-thoracotomy pain
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- Sciatica
- Shingles
