Common Services
As triple board-certified specialists in modern pain management, Northwest Suburban Pain Center focuses on two key issues:
1. Determining the precise source of pain.
2. Developing and implementing a customized treatment plan to ease or eliminate discomfort and return the patient to the highest functional level possible.
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Types of Pain Treated
Advanced Treatment Options
Types of Treatment Options
New Treatments & Technologies
Patient Referrals & Inquiries
Types of Pain Treated
Acute/chronic mid and lower back pain
Cervical neck pain, “whiplash”
Cancer related pain
Complex regional pain syndromes
Diabetic neuropathy and other peripheral neuropathy
Spine disc related pain
Spine facet and nerve root pain
Joint pain – knee, hip, shoulders, ankle, and other joints
Occipital neuralgia and headaches
Herpetic and post-herpetic neuralgia
Pelvic pain
Post-surgical failed back syndrome
Post traumatic pain
Sports injuries
Workplace injuries
Other pain problems
Advanced Treatment Options
Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS Trials)
Kyphoplasty – Vertebral Body Fractures
MILD – Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression
Intracept
Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator Trial
Sacroiliac Joint Fusion
Types of Treatment Options
Epidural therapy
Selective nerve root blocks
Sympathetic blocks
Radiofrequency ablation techniques in the spine and for joint pain
Intra-articular joint injections, viscosupplementation
Platelet rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell therapy
Spinal cord stimulation
Intrathecal pump management
New Treatments & Technologies
Coolief-cooled radio frequency ablation
Point-of-care biologics
FDA Approves New Treatment for Chronic Knee Pain
Patient Referrals & Inquiries
Because each patient’s needs are unique, we offer innovative clinical techniques for treating an array of painful conditions. These include rehabilitation, behavior modification, relaxation techniques and biofeedback, return-to-work programs and other clinically proven alternatives.
We also provide the expertise to implement a wide range of medical and surgical interventions, both on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Interventions include:
Lumbar, cervical and thoracic epidural steroid injections, caudal epidural steroid injections
Peripheral nerve blocks sympathetic nerve blocks – stellate and lumbar
Sympathetic nerve blocks – celiac plexus block and hypogastric neurolytic procedures
Joint injections including viscosupplementation
Radiofrequency
Placement of continuous catheters, epidural and intrathecal, for long term infusions
Discography
Percutaneous disc decompression
IDET
Facet blocks
Implantable technology for peripheral or central nervous system, such as peripheral nerve stimulators for knee pain, intercostal pain and headaches and spinal cord stimulators platelet rich plasma, stem cell injection therapy, regenerative medicine techniques
ablation of nerve branches in the spine, as well as joints (hip and knee)
