Pain Management
If long-lasting pain makes it hard for you to do daily activities or enjoy life, seek help from the pain management specialists at UNC Health Caldwell. You’ll get personalized treatment from a team that includes a board-certified, fellowship-trained anesthesiologist who knows the latest and best ways to care for your specific needs.
Conditions We Treat
Turn to us when you experience conditions such as:
- Arthritis and other joint pain
- Back and neck pain
- Cancer pain
- Chronic migraines
- Chronic muscle spasm
- Complex regional pain syndrome, or reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Failed back surgery
- Fibromyalgia
- Neuralgias (nerve pain)
- Neuropathies (nerve damage)
- Peripheral artery disease pain
- Sciatica
- Shingles
Pain Relief Treatment Options
You may benefit from one or more of these services at UNC Health Caldwell:
- Botox therapy – Relieves chronic migraines (headaches that happen 15 or more days a month)
- Joint aspiration (arthrocentesis) – Drains fluid from a joint to relieve pressure and pain
- Medication – Prescriptions for medicine you take by mouth to ease pain
- Nerve blocks, including epidurals – Injects anesthetic into a nerve or group of nerves to block pain signals
- Physical therapy – Teaches exercises that make it easier for you to move without pain
- Radiofrequency ablation for knee, hip, sacroiliac or facet joints – Uses a mild electrical current to eliminate the nerves that send pain signals to the brain
- Spinal cord stimulation – Implants a small device under the skin to send out pain-blocking electrical currents that you control
- Trigger point injection – Delivers anesthetic to painful knots in your muscles
Your Pain Management Team
You’ll see the best results when you get well-rounded care from a team at UNC Health Caldwell. That’s why pain management experts work with your primary care provider and other health care professionals. Together, they develop a complete, personalized treatment plan to help you get all the care you need.
