Sudden or chronic pain can result from an injury, illness, surgery, or even from normal daily activity.
You can count on the experts at UPMC to provide thorough care using the latest diagnostic tools and techniques.
After we diagnose the source of your pain, we'll work with you to design a customized treatment plan.
Our goals are to:
- Relieve, reduce, and manage your pain.
- Improve your overall quality of life.
- Get you back to your daily routine quickly without a heavy reliance on pain meds.
Our Services
What we offer
Tests and treatments we offer to help manage pain include:
- Discography.
- Epidurals (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar).
- Epidural steroid injections – Commonly used to treat low back and leg pain, these injections deliver steroids directly into the epidural space in the spine to reduce inflammation.
- Facet and nerve root shots.
- Joint injections – Powerful corticosteroids are delivered directly to the soft tissues and joints to reduce pain and inflammation.
- Lumbar punctures.
- Radiofrequency lesioning of painful nerves – Used to selectively destroy nerves that carry pain impulses, this procedure can provide long-term pain relief.
- Spinal cord stim.
- Steroid shots to the joints and soft tissues.
- Sympathetic blocks – These treat chronic abdominal pain and regional pain syndrome and block painful impulses from the nerves of the sympathetic nervous system.
- Trigger point injections – Used to treat fibromyalgia, tension headaches and myofascial pain syndrome, trigger point injections deliver medication directly into the focal areas of muscle spasm and inflammation.
We also treat a range of painful conditions, including:
- Arthritis.
- Bursitis.
- Chronic post-op pain.
- Low back pain.
- Neck and shoulder pain.
- Nerve injuries.
- Sciatica.
- Shingles.
- Spinal stenosis.
- Tension headaches.
