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 Ascension 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