About this Location
Welcome to East Jefferson General Hospital Pain Management
East Jefferson Pain Management offers a multidisciplinary patient centered approach to the treatment of chronic pain, including surgical and non-surgical pain solutions such as: including physical therapy, cognitive therapy, medications and injections.
Pain Management is dedicated to helping those with chronic pain improve their quality of life by controlling their pain. Adequate pain control is important to an individual’s physical and mental health. Untreated pain can cause lost sleep, depression, anxiety, irritability, lost productivity and the inability to do things they once enjoyed. Pain decreases the body’s ability to fight disease and can prevent an individual from participating fully in his or her own care.
Conditions treated
Just as there is no single source of pain, there is no single treatment that works for everything. The conditions listed below represent only a handful of the most commonly treated forms of pain treated at the Pain Management Institute. If you have pain of any kind that is impacting other aspects of your life, it is worthy of examination. The Pain Management Institute treats a number of different conditions including, but not limited to:
- Cancer Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Post-Operative Back Pain
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Sacroiliac and Facet Joint Disease
- Vertebral Body Compression Fractures
- Neuropathic Pain
- Peripheral Neuralgia
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (Shingles)
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD/CRPS)