Pain Management

Loyola Medicine’s Pain Management Center provides truly integrated clinical care for the management of acute and chronic pain. Our multidisciplinary team includes anesthesiologists, psychologists and pain specialists who work closely with orthopaedic surgeons, neurologists, oncologists, otolaryngologists, gastroenterologists and other specialists to care for patients with a wide array of painful conditions.

Loyola’s specialists focus on the comfort, healing and well-being of each patient—addressing not only the condition or disease, but also managing the life-altering symptoms that can affect daily activities. For many people, chronic pain affects sleep and creates stress. We at Loyola know that chronic pain can have a lasting impact on your life, causing physical impairment and taking an emotional toll.

For each patient, we provide a clinical and psychological evaluation, along with an individualized plan of care that may include:

• Advanced interventional techniques
• Diagnostic nerve blocks
• Epidural catheter placement for home infusion therapy
• Epidural steroid injections
• Joint injections (hip, knee, shoulder, sacro-illiac)
• Neurolytic blocks
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Sympathetic nerve blocks for extremity pain
• Trigger point injections

Pain management techniques may be effective in the treatment of:

• Abdominal pain
• Cancer pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Headaches
• Low back pain
• Migraines
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Myofascial pain
• Neuropathic pain syndromes
• Pelvic pain
• Post-surgical pain
• Sciatica
• Spinal pain

When medications are no longer needed, it is important they are disposed of properly to reduce harm through accidental exposure or misuse. Medications that are expired, unwanted or unused should be properly disposed of at a public disposal site as soon as possible. Find the nearest public disposal site.