Pain Treatment - Ochsner Rush Health

Pain Treatment

Shoulder PainPain can affect simple tasks like playing with your children, lifting groceries or gardening. It can also keep you from doing more important things such as exercising or going to work. The goal of the Pain Treatment Center at Ochsner Rush Medical Center is to provide compassionate, innovative, comprehensive care that allows you to “get back to being you.” Our physicians are fellowship-trained, board-certified experts who will help you achieve increased functional capacity, reduce pain and live a more normal, productive life.

Treatment Approach

The primary focus for treatment is to help reduce or eliminate pain and provide referring physicians with diagnostic information using the following treatment methods:

  • Consultations and office visits
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
  • Hospital consultations
  • Medication management
  • Multidisciplinary approach
  • Patient education
  • Referrals as medically necessary to other subspecialties

Pain Disorders Treated

Our pain management doctors work with all painful syndromes, including but not limited to:

  • Angina
  • Arthritis
  • Back pain
  • Cancer pain
  • Chronic pain
  • Complex regional pain syndrome
  • Compression fractures
  • Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
  • Facet syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Headaches
  • Joint pain
  • Limb pain
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Myofascial pain
  • Neurogenic pain syndromes
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Pelvic pain
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Phantom limb pain
  • Shingles
  • Shoulder pain
  • Sickle cell crisis

Treatment Modalities

We offer comprehensive and interventional pain-management services to patients who suffer from acute and chronic pain. If you need treatment modalities that are not offered by the practice, you will be referred to other specialists as medically necessary.

Treatment modalities include:

  • Arthrography
  • Axillary nerve block
  • Blood patch
  • Botox injection
  • Brachial plexus block
  • Celiac plexus block
  • Chemical neurolysis
  • Consultation – office and hospital
  • COOLIEF/Cooled Radiofrequency Treatment
  • Diskography
  • Epidural steroid injection (caudal, cervical, lumbar, thoracic)
  • Facet block
  • Facial nerve block
  • Hypogastric plexus block
  • Ilioinguinal nerve block
  • Implantable programmable pain pump
  • Implantable pump system
  • Intercostal nerve block
  • Joint injection
  • Lumbar sympathetic block
  • Medial branch nerve block
  • Nucleoplasty
  • Occipital nerve Block
  • Paravertebral nerve block
  • Peripheral nerve block
  • Peripheral nerve stimulation
  • Racz catheter
  • Radio frequency neurolysis
  • Rehab/behavioral therapy
  • SI joint injection
  • Sphenopalatine nerve block
  • Spinal cord stimulation
  • Stellate Ganglion nerve block
  • Suprascapular nerve block
  • Sympathetic nerve block
  • Trigeminal nerve block
  • Trigger point injection
  • Tunneled catheter
  • Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty

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