Pain Management
It is our goal to provide you with information about pain relief and include you in decisions about your care. Your reports of pain will be believed and acted upon quickly. You will be included in discussions about different ways to control your pain. It is important that you help us by telling a healthcare professional about any new pain or pain that does not go away and report any concerns about taking pain medicine.
Pain management at Saint Alphonsus is divided into inpatient and outpatient services. We treat the whole person, not just their pain. Our unique brand of pain management includes physical therapy, injections, nutrition, exercise, relaxation, stress management, and biofeedback techniques. We help patients take an active role in controlling their pain, beyond the use of drugs. We focus on enabling the achievement of the best possible outcomes. These are pain reduction, using the smallest effective dose of medications, high levels of activity, and a resolution of pain-related psychosocial issues.
To make your treatment most effective, we request that you ask questions if you are confused or do not agree with parts of your treatment. More importantly, we ask that you take the responsibility to become an active participant in your treatment.
At Saint Alphonsus, our Comprehensive Pain and Spine Program requires specialists that treat the whole person and not just their pain. We help patients take an active role in controlling their own pain, beyond the effects of the drugs. We focus on facilitating the achievement of the best possible patient outcomes. These are maximal reduction of pain, smallest effective dose of pain medications, maximal levels of activity, and maximal resolution of pain-related psychosocial issues.
Our pain management specialists include:
- Pain Management – Pain management can be simple or complex depending on the cause of pain. For example, back pain can be caused by poor posture sitting at your desk, to a herniated disc to a degenerative condition like arthritis.
- Acute Spine Care – Treating patients with a sudden onset of pain in their back, hip or gluteal region. Evidenced based non-operative spine care utilizing a multidisciplinary approach.
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine – Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), also known as physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.