Pain Management and Anesthesiology

The Pain Management Group at Heartland Spine and Specialty Hospital is dedicated to patient comfort, whether you need anesthesia for a surgery by one of Heartland’s skilled surgical team or treatment of difficult pain.

Pain Management

Whether you suffer from muscle or joint pain or chronic back and neck pain, our physicians and staff are committed to providing you with the best possible experience. Our patients' comfort and care are most important, and so is our effort to maintain the highest standards of patient care.  

At Heartland, we treat the causes of chronic and acute pain caused by the following conditions:

Cancer pain Stroke or neurological disease pain Lower back pain Arthritis Shingles Failed back surgery Neck and back pain from degenerative diseases or injuries Chronic muscle spasm

Diabetic and other neuropathies Neuralgias Trigeminal neuralgia Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Pain from peripheral vascular disease Chronic headache non-migraine Repetitive motion injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome Post-surgical pain

Over the years, our physicians have learned a great deal about how to control pain with medications, surgery, and other treatments or a combination of all of these modalities. Some of the pain management procedures offered at Heartland include:

Comprehensive evaluations and examinations
Diagnosis of acute and chronic pain conditions
Trigger point injections
Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks with fluoroscopic guidance
Radiofrequency nerve ablation
Nucleoplasty (percutaneous disk decompression)
Vertebroplasty
Lumbar Discograms
Intrathecal infusion pump trials and maintenance, including refills and reprogramming
Spinal cord stimulator trials, surgical implant and reprogramming
Medication management with review of medical records
Spinal tap with physician orders

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Anesthesiology

Our two lead anesthesiologists have over 25 years of experience each as well as board certification. Their primary goal is to make patients as comfortable as possible with appropriate levels of sedation before, during, and after surgery as well as during some diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Anesthesia provides freedom from pain and is a very important part of your operation. Anesthesia not only relieves pain, but can also make the operation safer for you.

There are several types of anesthesia offered at Heartland:

• General Anesthesia is the most common type of anesthesia for surgery. You will be in a sleep state during the surgery. You will have no pain. You will remember little about the surgery or recovery period. Usually general anesthesia is administered by injecting medicines into a vein, or having you breathe a gas from the anesthesia machine.
• Regional Anesthesia is used to numb only a specific part of the body. A local anesthetic (numbing medicine) is injected into the area, where it blocks pain sensations. There are many types of regional anesthesia. The most common are: spinal, epidural, and Bier blocks.
• Monitored Anesthesia means your surgeon will use a local anesthetic (numbing medicine) in the area of your surgery. We provide continuous monitoring to assure your safety, and may give you medicines to help you rest comfortably while your surgeon works.

Regardless of which type of anesthesia you receive, all anesthesias given by the Heartland Spine and Specialty Hospital is administered by or under the medical direction of our Anesthesiologists.