Pain Management

The pain management specialists at UAB St. Vincent’s are experts in relieving chronic pain. They listen to patients to understand how pain affects their physical and emotional health, then they create personalized care plans to relieve their symptoms.

Chronic pain can affect your overall health, including how well you sleep, how you feel psychologically, and what physical activities you can perform. Our pain medicine doctors diagnose and treat all types of pain using a variety of methods, including procedures, injections, medications, and physical therapy rehabilitation.

Some of the most common types of chronic pain conditions we treat include:

• Arthritis joint pain
• Cancer-related pain near a tumor
• Headaches, including migraines
• Low back pain, including sciatica
• Neck pain that travels down one or both arms
• Muscle pain and spasms, common with fibromyalgia
• Neuralgia, which causes burning and stabbing nerve pain
• Neurogenic pain, such as phantom limb pain

Team approach

Members of your pain management care team work together closely to provide individualized treatments to help control your pain symptoms while helping your body heal. Your care team may include some or all of these providers:

• Anesthesiologist
• Physiatrist (physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor)
• Neurologist
• Rehabilitation therapist
• Palliative care nurse
• Chiropractor
• Alternative medicine provider

Your care team also focuses on how pain can affect your mental health. We help identify and manage anxiety and depression caused by pain, and your doctor can connect you with mental health specialists as needed. For older adults, we have doctors and nurses who specialize in geriatric medicine and provide pain management as part of your overall health care as you age.