Pain Management

Chronic pain may be keeping you from the life you love today. But it doesn’t have to be a part of your tomorrows. Find hope with specialized care from experts who are ready to help you feel like yourself again.

Pain Experts You Can Count On

Our pain experts will work closely with you, your primary care doctor and other specialists to create a customized treatment plan for your pain. Depending on your needs, your pain management team may include:

• Neurosurgeons to help with surgical solutions for conditions affecting your nervous system
• Pain management doctors to find the cause of your pain and offer a wide range of nonsurgical treatment methods
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors to guide you through stretching and strengthening techniques that can help you live more comfortably
• Psychologists to focus on the feelings and behaviors related to your pain

Hospital-Based Pain Care When You Need It

When you’re in the hospital, you’ll see specialists from our hospital-based pain program — the largest and most comprehensive pain management program in Kansas City. We’re ready around the clock to help you manage your pain and return home in comfort.

Pain Conditions We Treat

We treat a wide range of chronic pain conditions, including:

• Arthritis pain
• Back and neck pain
• Cancer-related pain
• Chronic arm or leg pain that develops after an injury, surgery, stroke or heart attack
• Headaches (non-migraine)
• Injury that results in pain
• Joint and muscle pain
• Nerve damage or injury
• Numbness or weakness
• Post-surgery pain
• Shingles
• Stroke

Pain Care That’s Just Right for You

No matter your pain symptoms, we’ll work tirelessly until we find the source of your pain. And we won’t stop at caring for your physical health—we’re here to support you emotionally too.

We offer:

• Alternative and complementary treatments like acupuncture, herbal medicine and massage
• Conservative treatments like behavioral health care, trigger point therapy and physical therapy
• Imaging tests, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and discograms to help us find the cause of your back pain
• Palliative care for chronic conditions

Medications & Injections for Pain Management

When conservative treatments don’t help, we may suggest non-opioid medications or injections to help with your pain, including:

• Injections in the area around the spinal cord (epidural steroid injections)
• Injections in the joints between each vertebra of the spine (facet joint injections)
• Injections in lower back joints (sacral iliac joint injections)
• Injections in the back between the spine and spinal cord (transforaminal epidural injections)
• Nerve blocks
• Oral medications

Surgeries & Procedures for Pain Management

In some cases, surgery may be the best option for pain management. Your doctor may recommend:

• Intracept® procedure to help relieve chronic low back pain using minimally invasive and microwave ablation techniques.
• Minimally invasive lumbar decompression for spinal canal stenosis to remove bone or ligament, relieving pressure on spinal cord nerves in the lower back
• Nerve ablation and radiofrequency lesioning to target nerves, stopping them from sending pain signals to the brain
• Neuromodulation therapies, such as spinal cord stimulators to help relieve pain or improve function by changing how the nervous system works

Our Pain Management Providers

A physician referral is required for treatment at the Pain Management Clinic.