Chronic pain can impact a patient’s life in a multitude of ways, preventing or complicating many everyday tasks that most people take for granted. Our Pain Management provider provides personalized, compassionate care, along with advanced treatment methodologies, for patients who experience chronic or acute pain. 

At Saint Vincent Medical Group, we believe pain management can be a vital part of treatment as a whole. Whether you need help with chronic pain management or you’re interested in learning more about short-term pain management therapy, we’re here to help you.

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Who We Are

Our Pain Management physician is focused on providing patients with the highest quality and most technologically advanced treatments in chronic pain management. Our physicians and clinical staff work closely with doctors in other service lines, physical therapists and clinical psychologists. We use minimally invasive interventional techniques to address your pain.

Pain Management care at Saint Vincent Medical Group takes a multidisciplinary approach—viewing each patient’s health and lifestyle history to provide comprehensive care that aims to alleviate and address the root causes of pain and its physical and psychological impact.

Pain Management physicians are available to form a specific treatment plan. By working directly with other Saint Vincent physicians in fields as diverse as surgery, physical medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, anesthesia, social services and oncology, to name a few, Pain Management specialists are able to map out a personalized care that best suits each patient’s unique set of medical, physical and psychological challenges.

Our team provides:

• Interventional Procedures
• Physical Therapy
• Advanced Treatment

What do Pain Management physicians do?

They focus in treating patients who suffer from acute and chronic disabling pain using a quality, nonsurgical approach. Our multidisciplinary approach to treat pain offers advanced treatment options in a supportive, compassionate environment.

Many patients suffer from back, neck, and nerve pain in the extremities as well as painful joint conditions.

Patients are evaluated and treated for many types of pain.

Understanding Your Pain Management Journey

There’s little else that can get your spirit down quite like dealing with chronic pain. Whether your pain comes from an old sports injury, recent injury, surgery or simply wear and tear, your goal is the same: relief from the discomfort of chronic pain. Your physician’s approach to pain relief depends very much on your particular cause, your age and health. Your doctor will discuss strategic options with you to begin your pain management journey to recovery.

Five Common Pain Management Approaches

1. Medication - considering the opioid crisis in the U.S., doctors are less than enthusiastic to prescribe opioids to their patients, opting rather to prescribe non-opioids like high-­­dose ibuprofen. In fact, according to the CDC there has been a steady 22% decline in opioid prescriptions since 2013.
2. Interventional Procedures - this technique includes nerve blocks, pain relief injections­—even electric stimulation. It’s a maintenance solution, but not meant to be long term.
3. Rehabilitative and Occupational Therapy - this is healthy middle ground that starts you participating in a critical role to your recovery. A physical therapist will work with you to help get you where you need to be, and you can even practice techniques and exercises at home. Rehabilitative therapy generally differs from occupational therapy by addressing an event that led to your pain or injury, such as an accident. Occupational therapy helps you find interventions designed to allow you to lead a more independent daily life, such as using a walker to increase mobility after surgery. Your success depends a lot on you—so hard work does pay off.
4. Complementary Alternative Medicine - many chronic pain sufferers find relief in calming alternative medicine like acupuncture, yoga, as well as meditation. These are termed “complementary” because they are not intended to take the place of traditional techniques, but aid greatly.
5. Self-management - this is another good one for people who want to know they can have control over the outcome. Diet and low impact exercise can contribute to pain management. For example, swimming is a wonderful exercise for joint pain sufferers or if you’ve had any type of joint replacement surgery, such as hip replacement.