Pain Management

Chronic pain is a long-lasting pain that can persist for months, years, or even decades.

Conditions that commonly cause chronic pain include:

Back pain involves discomfort in your upper or lower back. If you suffer from this common health problem, you might experience one or more of the following symptoms:

Back pain might resolve on its own with proper home care, or come and go, or get worse over time. If back pain lingers and prevents you from completing everyday tasks or staying active, the pain management physicians at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center are here for you.

You might experience back pain from a sports, work-related, or automobile injury, or normal everyday wear-and-tear associated with age. Common causes of back discomfort include:

To diagnose the cause of back pain, your physician reviews your medical history, completes a physical exam, and may use MRIs, X-rays, or other imaging techniques.

Pain doesn’t have to be a normal part of your life. Call Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or book your appointment online to find the relief you deserve today.

The pain management specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center might recommend one or more of the following back pain treatments, depending on your needs:

Physical therapy helps stretch and strengthen areas within or near your back responsible for chronic pain. Your practitioner may use assisted stretching to optimize your results, and shows you which exercises to complete at home.

Sometimes the source of back pain is associated with spinal misalignment. We do not have chiropractor care in-house but can refer patients to care.

With interventional pain management, your practitioner may use steroid injections or nerve blocks to relieve inflammation and back pain.

Surgery is often a last resort, but is sometimes necessary to ease back pain and fully restore body functions and your quality of life.

The dedicated specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center work with you diagnose the cause of your neck pain.
Some of the common causes of neck pain include:

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center knows that neck pain can also be a symptom of another issue, like an injury you sustained during a car accident or a disease like arthritis or meningitis.

During your first appointment at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center, you talk with the dedicated pain team about your specific symptoms. That way, they can start identifying the cause of your pain, enabling them to deliver treatment directly to the root of the issue.

Neck pain may or may not heal on its own, depending on its cause. If neck pain is caused by muscle strain as a result of poor posture, for example, correcting your posture and giving your neck time to recover is usually enough to put a stop to your pain.

In other cases, the neck requires direct treatment to heal. Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center has a wide range of treatments available to address and resolve neck pain.

How neck pain is treated depends on the root cause of the pain. In some instances, pain management medication is effective at alleviating your neck pain while the issue causing it is treated.

The team at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center does more than just mask the pain whenever possible. They also offer interventional procedures to alleviate your pain.

With nerve blocks or injections, they can target the specific area from which your pain radiates. They can use either pain-blocking medication or anti-inflammatory medication to reduce your neck pain. These treatments can be either short-term fixes or long-lasting solutions.

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center tailors your treatment to your specific neck pain and what’s most effective for you.

You don’t have to live with neck pain. Get the care you need by calling Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or scheduling your appointment online today.

Your knee is a complex joint made up of bones, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. Knee pain can result from a disease or injury and may present as:

Sometimes knee pain subsides with rest and proper at-home care. If yours doesn’t, the pain management specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center are here for you.

Numerous diseases or injuries, including sports- or work-related injuries, can cause knee pain. Examples include:

Several factors increase your risk of developing knee pain, such as being overweight, lack of strength or flexibility, playing certain sports, and having a previous knee injury.

After carefully reviewing your medical history, examining your knee, and using blood or imaging tests, your practitioner diagnoses the cause of knee pain and discusses your treatment options. They might recommend one or more of the following:

Your practitioner may use nerve blocks that block pain signals along nerve pathways. They use ultrasound-guided injections to locate specific nerves for pain relief.

Steroid injections, including cortisone injections, help reduce knee inflammation and the pain it causes. Your practitioner completes steroid injections in about an hour and the pain relief you experience might last several weeks, months, or years.

Though we do not offer physical therapy here at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center, we can refer out to physical therapists who will work with you to strengthen and stretch tissues in your knee to ease pain and improve mobility.

If you have a severe knee injury, surgery might be the best option for long-term pain relief and full joint restoration. While often a last resort, your provider might recommend surgery to repair or replace your knee joint to give you the best possible outcome.
Don’t live with debilitating knee pain when you don’t have to. Schedule an appointment over the phone or online with Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center today.

Cancer pain is pain or discomfort associated with cancer or its treatment that presents in numerous forms. It might appear as pain that is:

The extent of your pain depends on the type of cancer you have, its severity, and your pain tolerance.
If cancer pain prevents you from participating in normal everyday tasks or being physically active, the pain management physicians at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center are here for you every step of the way.

Pain associated with cancer often results from cancer cells destroying tissues within your body or tumors pressing on bones, nerves, or organs. Tumors can release chemicals in your body responsible for lasting pain.

Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, are also associated with cancer pain.

Your pain management specialist reviews your medical history and symptoms, completes an exam, and may use blood or imaging tests to determine the best cancer pain treatment plan for your personalized needs.

They might recommend:

Injecting cortisone or another steroid at strategic points within your body helps reduce inflammation and cancer pain without a lengthy recovery time.

A nerve block is a local anesthetic your pain management physician injects near or into a nerve to prevent pain messages along nerve pathways from reaching your brain.

Many patients prefer holistic cancer pain treatments over medications, especially for mild cancer pain. If this is the case for you, your doctor might recommend massage therapy, physical therapy, acupuncture, meditation, or other relaxation techniques.

Your practitioner develops a personalized cancer pain treatment plan based on your preferences, the severity of your pain, and the cause of discomfort.

They use the most conservative, holistic approaches whenever possible but understand the importance of using medications when necessary to maximize your quality of life.

Don’t live with debilitating cancer pain when simple pain management treatments are within reach at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center. Schedule an appointment over the phone or use the online booking tool today.

Shoulder pain can stem from any number of issues, from a problem with the ball-and-socket joint within your shoulder to muscle strain.
The leading cause of shoulder pain is rotator cuff tendonitis, or swelling and irritation in the four tendons that give your shoulder its range of motion. Other common causes of shoulder pain include:

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center works with you to identify the root of your specific shoulder pain so they can deliver targeted, effective treatment.

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center offers a range of safe, innovative, minimally invasive treatments to help you get relief.
These include:

Blocking the nerves in your shoulder from sending pain signals to your brain is a direct, effective way to eliminate shoulder pain.
With targeted injections, your experienced Elite Pain Management and Recovery Centers provider does exactly that. Suprascapular nerve blocks, in particular, are effective for shoulder pain caused by arthritis.

When inflammation is the root cause of your shoulder pain, as is the case with rotator cuff tendonitis, treating it is an effective way to get relief. With that goal in mind, Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center offers cortisone steroid injections that minimize inflammation in the targeted area.

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center offers nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to moderate inflammation in your body and help your shoulder heal. They also offer muscle relaxants to resolve certain types of shoulder pain.

It depends on what causes your shoulder pain and how your body responds to specific treatments. Your Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center provider works with you to help you find safe, effective, lasting relief from your shoulder pain, no matter the cause.

If you’re ready to put a stop to your discomfort and regain your range of motion, get in touch with the team of shoulder pain specialists. Call Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or book your appointment online today.

Your hip is a ball and socket joint where your upper thigh bone connects to your pelvis. Hip pain occurs near one or both hip joints, your upper thigh area, groin, or outer buttocks.

It’s a common condition, especially with aging, and often results from problems with tissues surrounding the joint.

With hip pain, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:

Symptoms vary from person to person, but if hip pain limits your mobility and prevents you from staying active, the pain management specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center are here for you.

Hip pain often results from an injury or disease. Common causes of hip discomfort include:

Your practitioner reviews your medical history and examines your hip to determine the cause of hip pain. They may use blood or imaging tests, such as X-rays or MRIs, to make a diagnosis and establish a treatment plan that’s right for you.

Your personalized hip pain treatment depends on the type of hip pain you experience, its severity, and what’s causing the pain. Pain management physicians might recommend one or more of the following:

Cortisone or other steroid injections help relieve hip inflammation and pain associated with it. These injections have short recovery times and take about an hour to complete. Pain relief from steroid injections can last weeks or years, depending on how your body reacts.

Nerve blocks target specific nerves to reduce hip pain. Your practitioner uses ultrasound, a needle, and a fluoroscope to locate and inject areas near specific nerves. This can reduce inflammation and prevent pain messages along nerve pathways from reaching your brain.

Your practitioner might recommend physical therapy to strengthen and stretch tissues surrounding your hip joint to ease pain and increase range of motion.

Surgery is a last resort for hip pain, but it is sometimes necessary to fully restore hip structure and function. Your practitioner lets you know if surgery to repair or replace your hip joint is right for you.
Don’t let hip pain prevent you from enjoying simple everyday tasks or staying active. Schedule an appointment with Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center over the phone or online today

Headaches and migraines involve pain in any part of your head. Migraines are associated with more severe pain and seeing auras or visual disturbances.

Common symptoms of headaches and migraines include:

Headaches and migraines might appear suddenly or gradually. They can be short lived or last longer than a day. If headache or migraine pain is a regular occurrence, the pain specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center are here for you.

Women are three times more likely than men to develop migraines. Numerous factors contribute to headaches and migraines.

Examples include:

Your practitioner works with you to determine the cause of your headaches and migraines and establish a treatment plan that best matches your needs.

They review your medical history and symptoms, complete an exam, and may use blood, imaging, or neurological tests to rule out serious medical conditions, such as a tumor or traumatic brain injury.

What is the treatment for headaches and migraines?
The pain management specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center work with you to develop a personalized treatment plan.

They might recommend one or more of the following:

Making lifestyle changes can help reduce your risk of developing a migraine or headache. Examples include getting enough sleep, losing weight if you’re overweight, getting regular exercise, making dietary changes, and stress-reduction strategies like massage or meditation.

Realigning your spine using chiropractic adjustments often helps relieve chronic headache and migraine pain. We do not have chiropractor care in house but can refer patients to care.

In addition to massage, other alternative headache and migraine treatments include acupuncture, deep breathing exercises, physical therapy, and taking herbal or other dietary supplements.

Taking certain medications eases headache pain and reduces your risk of experiencing a migraine.

Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain that is often accompanied by sleeping problems, chronic fatigue, and memory or mood issues. Women have a higher risk of developing fibromyalgia than men.

There’s no cure for the condition, but numerous pain management solutions help control symptoms and restore your quality of life.

If you have fibromyalgia, you might experience one or more of the following symptoms associated with the disease:

The exact cause of fibromyalgia isn’t known, but it appears to be associated with infections, genetics, and physical or emotional trauma. Having arthritis or lupus, being a woman, and a family history of fibromyalgia increase your risk of developing the disorder.

Your doctor diagnoses fibromyalgia based on your symptoms and medical history. They may use blood or imaging tests to rule out conditions associated with chronic pain and establish the most appropriate course of action.

Your personalized fibromyalgia treatment might include:

Therapists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center use physical therapy to strengthen and stretch certain areas of your body to ease chronic pain naturally.

Chiropractic adjustments use manual manipulation to realign your spine and ease compressed nerves that contribute to chronic pain.
We do not have chiropractor care in-house but can refer patients to care.

Interventional pain management includes steroid injections and nerve blocks that ease pain in certain areas of your body.

Making certain lifestyle changes often relieves symptoms of fibromyalgia pain. Examples include getting regular exercise, losing weight if you’re overweight, following a healthy diet, reducing stress, and getting plenty of sleep.

Your practitioner uses prescription pain-relieving medications as a last resort if other pain management options haven’t worked for you.

Your pain management physician recommends conservative fibromyalgia treatments first.

They consider the severity of your pain and your preferences when developing personalized treatment plans, and may recommend more than one treatment to achieve optimal results.

Don’t let fibromyalgia ruin your quality of life when simple treatments are available at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center. Schedule an appointment over the phone or online today.

Neuropathy, also called peripheral neuropathy, is a condition that affects the functioning of the nerves in your body’s peripheral nervous system. These are the nerves that run from your central nervous system out to control your arms, legs, hands, feet, and more.

When these nerves don’t work the way they should, they impact your life in a variety of ways. You might lose motor skills or sensation, or you might feel pain in your extremities.

Pain from neuropathy often feels like burning, tingling, or stabbing. If you often feel prickling sensations in your extremities or experience weakness, loss of muscular control, or sensitivity in your arms or legs, you could be living with neuropathy. The good news is that neuropathy is usually very manageable with treatment.

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of neuropathy. Other diseases, infections, and disorders can also cause peripheral neuropathy, as can nutrient deficiencies, exposure to toxins, and trauma.

Whether your neuropathy is the result of a car accident, a health condition, or an imbalance in your body, Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center is here to help.

The skilled pain management doctors start by identifying the cause of your neuropathy so they can deliver the most effective treatment. Then, they personalize a care plan to you so you get the pain relief you need.

How neuropathy is treated depends on its cause. Making lifestyle changes to eat more healthily can help certain types of neuropathy, while others require physical therapy or medication.

Your Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center provider talks with you about your treatment options so you can decide what’s right for you.

If medication is required, the pain management medication specialists at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center work with you to find the right prescription and dosage to alleviate any pain and protect your quality of life. They tailor medication, such as anticonvulsants, to your body and symptoms.

To learn more about neuropathy and available treatment options, contact Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center. Call or schedule your appointment online today.