Pain Medicine
The Division of Pain Medicine delivers a multidisciplinary, team-based approach to the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of painful disorders.
The physician staff includes pain experts from
Anesthesiology,
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R),
Neurology, and
Psychiatry and Psychology.
These specialists offer advanced therapies, including drug treatment, pain rehabilitation and management, injection therapies, and implants to address complex and multidimensional pain syndromes.
Services include:
- Acupuncture
- Behavioral pain therapies
- Chemical denervation
- Chronic pain management
- Counseling
- Epidural therapies
- Implanted pumps
- Joint injections
- Medication management
- Nerve blocks
- Physical therapy
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Spinal stimulation
Diseases and Treatments
Problems treated include:
- Abdominal pain
- Arthritis
- Cancer or cancer treatment-related pain
- Complex regional pain syndromes (reflex sympathetic dystrophy; causalgia)
- Disc disease
- Facet pain syndrome
- Myofascial pain syndromes
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Radiculopathy
- Sacroiliac pain syndromes
- Spinal pain
- Spinal stenosis
- Sports medicine
- Work injury
List of Doctors
Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine
- Paul E. Carns, M.D.
- Tracy E. Harrison, M.D.
- Marc A. Huntoon, M.D.
- Michelle O. Kinney, M.D.
- Tim J. Lamer, M.D.
- W. David Mauck, M.D.
- Jon B. Obray, M.D.
- Richard H. Rho, M.D.
- Toby N. Weingarten, M.D.
- Robert T. Wilder, M.D., Ph.D.
- Peter R. Wilson, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
Neurology
PM&R
Psychiatry/Psychology
Research
- Acupunture for fibromyalgia pain
- Gabapentin for chemotherapy-induced neuralgia
- Post-herpetic neuralgia treated with epidural corticosteroids
- Spinal cord stimulation for intractable angina
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