Pain Management
Coping with pain can be extremely challenging, affecting every aspect of your life - physical ability, emotional well-being and interpersonal relationships. North Knoxville Medical Center's pain management services are designed to give you relief from pain and help you regain control of your life.
Because pain and its effects are complex, our multidisciplinary, holistic approach includes board-certified pain management doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychologists and psychiatrists who work together to provide compassionate care.
The pain management team can develop a customized plan to address your individual needs and restore your quality of life. We offer pain relief strategies for a variety of conditions, including:
- Arthritis pain
- Back, joint and neck pain, including degenerative disc disease
- Cancer-related pain
- Headaches
- Myofascial pain
- Neuropathy
- Pain from injuries and accidents
- Pelvic and abdominal pain
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Pain Treatment Options
At North Knoxville Medical Center, we focus on each patient’s individual needs to develop a personalized treatment plan. After a thorough assessment, the pain treatment team works closely with each patient to develop a solution to decrease your level of pain and suffering, to return you to your maximum level of functioning and independence and to help restore your quality of life. Services include:
- Behavioral health
- Cooled radiofrequency
- Epidural steroid injections
- Facet injections
- Intercostal nerve blocks
- Lumbar sympathetic blocks
- Non-narcotic medication management
- Nutritional counseling
- Physical, occupational and alternative therapies
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Smoking cessation
- Spinal cord stimulator trials
- Trigger point injections
- Biofeedback and relaxation techniques
- Joint, tissue and nerve injections
- Massage therapy
- Radiofrequency ablation