Pain Management Clinic now open at Ascension Via Christi Hospital's Outpatient Pavilion (third floor)

Pain is a physically taxing and emotionally draining experience. For patients who need to control chronic pain, the Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan pain management center can help. We provide a positive, supportive atmosphere and offer a variety of treatment options to help you get the relief you need.

We provide comprehensive pain management through a team-centered approach, with a staff of registered nurses, a physician assistant and an anesthesiologist who specializes in pain management. We work with you from evaluation to treatment, giving professionally administered:

• Lifestyle recommendations
• Pharmacological treatments
• Alternative methods of pain relief

Please work with your primary care physician for a referral.

The following is a non-inclusive list of services provided at Via Christi's Pain Management Clinic:

• Vertebroplasty
• Discography
• Dorsal column stimulator trials and permanent implantations
• Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar epidural steroid injections
• Epidural adhesiolysis (for lumbar post-laminectomy syndrome or failed back surgery syndrome)
• Facet injections/medial branch blocks
• Radiofrequency ablation for facet joint/medial branch nerves
• Sympathetic blocks (stellate, celiac, lumbar sympathetic, ganglion impar, superior hypogastric plexus)
• Sympathetic ganglion radiofrequency ablation or alcohol neurolysis
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Peripheral nerve RFAs
• Knee, hip and shoulder intraarticular injections
• Major/minor bursa injections
• Trigger point Injections
• Head/neck blocks (sphenopalatine ganglion, trigeminal nerve, occipital nerve)
• Intercostal nerve blocks/RFA
• Viscosupplementation (synvisc/orthovisc/euflexxa) for the knee
• Ultrasound and fluoroscopic approaches for any of these procedures when appropriate