Pain Management Services in Northern Alabama & Tennessee

The Orthopaedic Center pain management team understands that chronic pain can drastically affect your quality of life. Fortunately, there is hope. At The Orthopaedic Center, we offer a full range of pain management services to help relieve pain and identify the cause of your condition. Our pain management specialist will work with our orthopaedists, physiatrists, and your primary care provider to assess your condition and create a treatment plan specifically for you.

A pain management specialist is often an anesthesiologist who completes an additional fellowship dedicated to the management of all types of pain. Through the use of diagnostic tests, combined with treatments like medications, injections, and other therapies, they can provide relief from your pain and help identify the cause of your condition.

Some of the conditions we treat include:

• Cervical and lumbar facet pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Causalgia)
• Degenerative/herniated disc pain
• Failed back surgery or post-laminectomy pain
• Head pain/occipital neuralgia
• Hip pain
• Intercostal neuralgia
• Low back pain
• Myofascial pain
• Neck pain
• Cancer-associated pain

• Nerve entrapment syndromes
• Neuropathic pain
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Post-herpetic neuralgia
• Post surgical pain
• Radiculopathy (lumbar; cervical)
• Sacroiliac joint pain
• Shoulder and knee arthritic pain (osteoarthritis)
• Spinal stenosis
• Vertebrogenic pain

Procedures performed include:

• COOLIEF* Cooled Radiofrequency Treatment
• Interlaminar Epidural Injections (cervical – thoracic – lumbar)
• Transforaminal Epidural Injections (lumbar)
• Diagnostic Nerve Root Blocks
• Spine Facet Injections (cervical – thoracic – lumbar)
• Diagnostic Facet Blocks
• Facet Denervation, Radiofrequency Treatment (cervical – thoracic – lumbar)
• Sympathetic Nerve Block
• Neuromodulation – Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation
• Joint Injections
• Trigger Point Injections
• Basivertebral Ablation
• Qutenza