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Pain Clinic
Lakeview Medical Center's Pain Clinic was established in 1994 and currently serves over 2000 patients per year. The Pain Clinic has teamed with The Pain Clinic of Northwestern Wisconsin to provide patients the widest variety of pain treatment options in the region. Doctors at the Pain Clinic are board certified in pain management.
Pain is a complex problem and our pain specialists take a thorough approach in developing patient treatment plans. When conventional methods of pain management do not provide relief, our pain specialists may have options that will work for you.
Types of Pain
Acute Pain is caused by an injury or health problem that can lead to tissue damage. Acute pain can be treated successfully with a combination of medications and patient education.
Chronic Pain is felt regularly and lasts over a long period of time. Chronic pain often requires a more complex treatment plan including patient education, medication, physical therapy, and injection procedures.
The goal of pain treatment is to help you gain control of your pain and manage it in order to limit disability and distress.
LMC's Pain Clinic can help you:
- Decrease pain
- Improve quality of life
- Learn new coping skills
- Decrease fear, depression and anxiety
- Increase function
How LMC's Pain Clinic works:
- We evaluate the origin of your pain.
- We teach you to better understand your diagnosis.
- We start you on an individually designed treatment plan.
- We teach you therapeutic exercises.
- We assist you and your family to cope with the problems centering around chronic pain.
- We address psychological problems associated with chronic pain such as depression, insomnia and anxiety.
- We help reduce dependence on narcotics and tranquilizer medications.
Some of the pain conditions we treat at LMC's Pain Clinic include:
- Neck Pain
- Cancer Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Acute Postoperative
- Headaches
- Traumatic Pain
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Bursitic Conditions
- Spinal Stenosis
- Shingles
- Facet Syndrome
- Frozen Shoulders
- Whiplash Injuries
- Herniated Disc Pain
- Arthritic Pain
- Degenerative Disc Disease
Some of the treatment options available at LMC's Pain Clinic include:
- Medical management
- Epidural steroid injections/cervical, thoracic, lumbar
- Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks
- Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy
- Patient and family education
- Referrals for psychological counseling and support
- Intradiscal decompression procedures
- Spinal cord stimulator
- Radiofrequency/Rhizotomy
For an evaluation from
Lakeview Medical Center's Pain Clinic, you will need a referral
from your doctor who will then send tests, x-rays and other
information that will help us in an initial evaluation. Following
treatment at the Pain Clinic, most patients return to their
doctor's care with our long-term treatment recommendations.
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