Chronic pain can be all-consuming. Whether it's caused by arthritis, diabetes, back injury, migraine headaches, cancer, surgery or long-term illness, pain affects every part of your life, and makes the most simple tasks seem difficult. What's more, pain can be an emotional as well as a physical drain on you and your family.
If you suffer from chronic pain, you're not alone. Approximately one-third of all Americans face the challenges of living with pain. But there is help.
The York Hospital Pain Relief Center is dedicated to finding effective pain relief. We work closely with our patients to increase physical abilities, resume work or leisure interests, lessen the need for pain medication, renew a sense of well-being and improve quality of life.
Our providers have the expertise to treat the following pain conditions:
Neck and lower back pain
Diabetic neuropathy
Chronic post-operative pain lasting longer than 3 to 6 months
Shingles
Post stroke pain
Phantom pain
Complex regional pain syndrome
Joint pain
Chronic muscle pain
Occipital neuralgia. Using the latest in clinical and diagnostic procedures,the York Hospital Pain Relief Center experts will review your previous treatment,conduct a physical examination and provide a thorough evaluation of your pain condition. Then,you and your physician will develop a complete individualized treatment plan.
The following represent some of the interventions and treatments available through the York Hospital Pain Relief Center:
- Bier blocks
- Blood patches
- Bursa/joint injections
- Celiac plexus blocks
- Cryoneurolysis
- Discography
- Epidural steroid injections
- Facet injections
- Ilioinguinal nerve blocks
- Intercostal nerve blocks
- Intrathecal pump management
- Lumbar sympathetic blocks
- Radiofrequency lesioning
- Sequential muscle stimulators
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Stellate ganglion blocks
- Trigger point injections