What is NC Pain Management Services?

It is a revolutionary concept in Pain Management. It is the next logical step above ordinary pain clinics. If your patient has not responded to one epidural steroid injection, why should they have another one done?

Our Staff.

            Our staff consists of board-certified Pain Specialists, skilled at the use of diagnostic and therapeutic injections and nerve blocks. Twenty four hour coverage is available by a non-call physician. Our physicians are intervention lists with a proven safety and success record.

Which conditions may benefit from this pain program?

ü Cancer Pain

ü Cervical Post-Laminectomy Syndrome

ü Cervicogenic Headaches

ü Chronic Muscle Spasms

ü Chronic Radiculopathies

ü Diabetic Neuropathy

ü Facet Syndrome(cervical, thoracic, lumbar)

ü Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

ü Fibromyalgia and Myofacial Pain Syndromes

ü Headaches

ü Leg or Arm Pain

ü Low Back Pain

ü Lumbar Post-Laminectomy Syndrome

ü Occipital Neuralgias

ü Patients unresponsive to epidural steroid injections

ü Patients with Chronic pain, whom are not surgical candidates

ü Patients with chronic radiculopathies

ü Patients with discogenic pain affecting multiple levels

ü Patients with Implantable pumps that need long term management.

ü Patients with lumbar or cervical facet disease. (Acute or Chronic)

ü Patients with Spinal Cord Stimulators that need long term management and/or adjustments.

ü Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

ü Ruptured Disc Pain

ü Sacroiliac Joint Pain

ü Shingles and Post-herpetic Neuralgia

ü Whiplash Injuries

What are the services provided?

ü Botox injections

ü Bursa Injections

ü Diagnostic &Therapeutic Peripheral Nerve Blocks

ü Diagnostic Discography (Cervical & Lumbar) with pressure manometry.

ü Diagnostic Selective Nerve Root Blocks (Any Level)

ü Epidural Neurolysis for Cancer Pain

ü Epidural Radicular Pain Mapping

ü Epidural Steroid Injections (Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Caudal)

ü Greater Occipital Nerve Peripheral Stimulators

ü Intercostal Nerve Blocks

ü Intra-articular Injections

ü Intra-Discal Electrothermal Annuloplasty Therapy for disc pain (IDET/IDEA)

ü Intrathecal Pump and Spinal Cord Stimulator Management

ü Intrathecal Pump Implants

ü Intrathecal Pump Trials

ü Pain Medication Consults

ü Radiofrequency Facet Neurolysis (Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar)

ü Radiofrequency Ganglionotomies

ü Radiofrequency Neurotomies

ü Spinal Cord Stimulator Implants (Cervical or Lumbar)

ü Spinal Cord Stimulator Trials

ü Spinal Neurolytic Blocks for Cancer Pain

ü Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections

ü Trigger Point Injections

What is our commitment?

Our commitment is to quality and personalized care of our patients. We are also committed to helping our referring physicians with the management of the more complicated pain patient. Our goal is to see referrals in a timely fashion.

We are also committed to facilitating our accessibility to the patient, by taking self-referrals.

Where is it located?

The facility is located on the second floor of the Medical Arts Building, Suite 2000, at the Alamance Regional Medical Center (A.R.M.C.), south of I-40, on exit 141.

                Patients coming to the Pain Center should park in the Medical Arts Parking lot.

1236 Huffman Mill Road,

Burlington, NC 27215

Elon College Exit 141 off Interstate 85/40

What are our office hours?

8:00am to 4:00pmMonday through Thursday.

8:00AM to 12:00noonon Friday.

How to contact us?

Call:336-538-7180

Note: Make sure to schedule the referral or appointment with Francisco A. Naveira, MD.