Treatments
UPMC Pain Medicine clinics offer outpatient evaluation and treatment of the most complex pain problems, including:
- headaches
- cancer pain
- carpal tunnel
- cervical pain
- fibromyalgia
- herniated disc
- lower back pain
- migraines
- neck pain
- osteoarthritis
- post-amputation pain
- post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles)
- reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- spinal cord injury
- spinal stenosis
- trigeminal neuralgia
The latest invasive treatment modalities are offered including:
- neruostimulator trials and surgical implantation
- neurolytic somatic and ganglia nerve blocks
- transforaminal selective nerve blocs and epidural injections
- radiofrequency lesioning of selective nerves and ganglia
- intrathecal opioid trial and implantation
- neuroacial opioids infusions and combinations for long-term therapy
- referral to pain rehabilitation or detoxification site as necessary
- evaluation of musculoskeletal pain
- interventional therapies including epidural steroid, sacroiliac and facet injections
- treatment of refractory cancer pain
- early, aggressive treatment of severe pain states, such as post-herpetic neuritis and complex regional pain syndrome (RSD)