Pain Medicine at Main Line Spine offers a comprehensive range of services for patients with acute or chronic painful disorders. We develop individualized treatment plans to ensure you get the right therapy when you need it.
Pain is a complex, challenging problem, requiring careful investigation of symptoms and specialized care. Our goal is to help you decrease your level of pain and suffering, to return you to your maximum level of functioning and independence, and to help you restore your quality of life.
Treatment Plan
Treatment plans begin by determining the cause of your pain through advanced diagnostic tests. We then work to ease or eliminate pain using state-of-the-art medical and interventional treatments. Your treatment plan may include a single approach or a combination of different types of therapies.
We’ll listen to you closely, respond to your concerns, and develop a mutually acceptable treatment plan. We’ll also take into full account the effectiveness – or not – of therapies that you may have used in the past. We want to make sure that we take advantage of those insights to avoid treatments that have not worked previously.
Our intent, over time, is to reduce the burden of your symptoms, improve your functional capabilities, and achieve the goals that we have set together for ourselves as practitioner and patient.
Consultation and Conditions
While we take the lead as physiatrists, as appropriate, we consult with interdisciplinary health care professionals throughout this process. This expanded team includes neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, oncologists, urologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians to provide a comprehensive approach to pain treatment for the full spectrum of conditions. These conditions include:
- Arthritis
- Back and neck pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disc disease
- Chronic abdominal pain and pelvic pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (Post-Laminectomy Syndrome)
- Muscle and joint pain
- Myofascial Pain Syndrome
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain associated with Osteoporosis
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Radiculopathy (Pinched Nerve)
- Sacroiliac Joint Pain
- Sciatica
Throughout the duration of your treatment, we will remain in contact with your primary physician to keep them apprised of your progress.