Determining The Cause:

As qualified specialists in pain management, Northwest Suburban Pain Center focuses on two key issues:

• Determining the precise source of pain
• Developing and implementing a customized treatment plan to ease or eliminate discomfort and return the patient to the highest functional level possible

Types of Pain Treated

We comprehensively treat different kinds of pain, including:

• 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

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

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 ablation of nerve branches in the spine, as well as joints (hip and knee)
• 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

New Treatments & Technologies

• Coolief- Cooled Radio Frequency Ablation
• Point-of-Care Biologics