Chronic pain is more common than you may think, but you don’t have to live with debilitating discomfort. At Alaska Pain to Wellness Center in Anchorage, Alaska, pain management specialists Greg Wilkinson, PA-C, M.Ed, Steve Johnson, MD, and their skilled team offer pain management consultations to find a pain-relieving solution that matches your goals. Call the office or use the online booking tab today to schedule a consultation.
A pain management consultation at Alaska Pain to Wellness Center is a meeting with a board-certified pain specialist who finds the root cause of ongoing pain and determines the best way to treat it. The Alaska Pain to Wellness Center experts have many years of experience relieving ongoing discomfort in men and women of all ages.
If you have severe, ongoing, or bothersome pain, you’re a candidate for a pain management consultation at Alaska Pain to Wellness Center. You might have pain because of arthritis, osteoporosis, another chronic disease, or an injury. See your pain specialist at the first sign of a problem to help you feel better quickly.
During pain management consultations at Alaska Pain to Wellness Center, you meet with a friendly provider. They check your vital signs, complete a physical exam, and review your medical history and symptoms.
Your pain specialist could also order blood tests, nerve testing, heart-function tests, X-rays, an MRI, an ultrasound, a CT scan, or other imaging procedures to determine the best way to reduce your discomfort.
Standard pain-relieving solutions available at Alaska Pain to Wellness Center include:
Physical therapy stretches and strengthening exercises reduce pain naturally and lessen your risk of further injuries.
Your Alaska Pain to Wellness Center provider helps you gain access to medical cannabis, if you qualify, to reduce ongoing pain.
Radiofrequency ablation uses radio waves and a fine needle to heat and destroy painful nerves.
Your Alaska Pain to Wellness Center specialist surgically implants a spinal cord stimulator underneath your skin. It then sends electrical signals to your spinal cord to reduce pain signals.
Alaska Pain to Wellness Centre offers ultrasound-guided nerve hydrodissection, an injection of a solution that separates painful nerves from surrounding tissues.
Electrical nerve stimulation uses electrical impulses to reduce nerve pain without needles or surgery.
Cortisone, epidural, hyaluronic acid, and other injections help reduce inflammation and discomfort in joints or other painful tissues. Nerve block injections ease discomfort caused by damaged or compressed nerves.
Alaska Pain to Wellness Center offers implantable intrathecal pain pumps that release pain-relieving medicine into your body over time.
The Alaska Pain to Wellness Center team uses platelet-rich plasma (PRP), exosomes, stem cells, and other regenerative injections to stimulate cell regeneration and your body’s natural ability to heal.
To schedule a pain management consultation, call the Alaska Pain to Wellness Center office or use the online booking tab today.