Workers’ Compensation and Chronic Pain
We offer a variety of treatment options to individuals injured on the job with chronic pain conditions. Our physicians focus on interventional therapy choices that can reduce pain and help get individuals back to work sooner. The range of complex work related injuries causing chronic pain include:
- Sciatica / Radiculopathy
- Chronic Back Pain
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Herniated Disc (Back / Neck)
- Disc Degeneration
- Internal Disc Disruption
- Discogenic Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Facet Syndrome (Back / Neck)
- Sacroiliac Joint Pain
- Failed Back Surgery Pain
- Vertebral Body Fractures
- Neuropathy
- Myofacial Pain / Fibromyalgia
- Neuralgias
- Scar Pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Headache
- Orofacial pain
- Muscle Spasticity
Our emphasis is to provide lasting pain relief without the need of surgery by using a range of minimally invasive and non-surgical pain treatment modalities. These treatment options include:
- Fluoroscopically directed Epidural Injections
- Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections
- Facet Joint Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Injections
- Discography
- Percutaneous Disc Decompression
- Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
- Radiofrequency Neuroablation
- Cryoneurolysis
- Diagnostic & Therapeutic Nerve Blocks
- Vertebroplasty
- Intrathecal Pump Implantation
- Spinal Cord Stimulation
Our clinic is staffed by skilled American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) accredited anesthesiologists with specialized training in Pain Medicine and special interest in the management of the above mentioned conditions. As scientific evidence implicates a relation between chronic physical pain and emotional state, our clinic is also staffed by a psychiatrist with a subspecialty interest in pain and addiction. We recognize the need to provide counseling and support for our patients with chronic pain from work related injuries.
Our Location
Interventional Pain Clinic at Outpatient Care Center
1801 West Taylor Street
Suite 4E
Chicago, IL 60612
If you would like us to evaluate and treat you and/or your employee for a work injury, please call 312.355.0510 for an appointment.
