Benefit from a collaborative, multi-specialty approach to pain management that you won't find at independent pain clinics. Our team works with other specialties — like therapy and rehabilitation, orthopedics, behavioral health and integrative medicine — to provide you with better support for complex pain issues.
Treatment Options for Pain
Avera specialists can help you manage your pain resulting from injury, illness, trauma, surgery recovery, nerve damage, migraines, arthritis or other health conditions. We offer safe, personalized care that starts with the least invasive methods first, progressing as necessary to address your pain and return you to everyday activities as quickly as possible.
Imaging
The first step in addressing pain is imaging. Taking images of affected areas allows your team to develop a custom treatment plan that focuses on least invasive methods first.
Non-Invasive Pain Management
Our care always starts with non-invasive options for managing your pain first to provide relief without surgery or injections whenever possible. These options may include:
- Physical medicine and therapy
- Massage
- Acupuncture
- Dry needling
- Lifestyle change recommendations
Advanced Pain Relief
When you live with hard-to-treat or persistent pain, rely on Avera’s advanced pain relief options to help you return to the life you love. You and your doctor will work together to select from interventional procedures and treatment options such as:
- Injections (including steroids) for joints, spine, muscles and trigger points
- Intrathecal pump management via device delivering pain medication directly to spinal fluid
- Kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty repair of vertebral fractures
- Occipital nerve blocks and neurolytic procedures for blocking pain signals to the brain
- Radiofrequency ablation to destroy or damage tissue for pain relief to treat tumors
- Sacroplasty for sacral insufficiency fractures by injecting bone cement into the fracture site
- Spinal cord stimulator therapy
