Chronic pain can be debilitating to your life. Our team in Interventional
Pain Management is here to support you and to work with you through your
pain with personalized and effective treatments.
Altru’s Interventional Pain Management team treats a wide variety
of pain including:
Sciatica
Lower Back Pain
Muscle Pain
Neck Pain
Neuropathy
Pelvic Pain
Chronic Post Surgical Pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Altru’s Interventional Pain Management team uses a variety of general
treatments for pain, treatments include but are not limited to:
Epidural injection
Nerve Blocks
Radiofrequency Ablation
Spinal Cord Stimulator
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy
Altru's Interventional Pain Management ensures pain is cared for appropriately
by working closely with other specialties, including:
Altru's Interventional Pain Management is located on the main level of
Altru Professional Center. For more information or to make an appointment, please call
701.780.2464 or use
MyChart.
Procedures Available
Patients needing interventional pain management services suffer distress
and discomfort caused by a variety of conditions including, but not limited to:
Chronic back and neck pain
Headaches
Post surgical procedures
Malignancy
Post-traumatic pain syndrome
Muscle and/or joint pain
Chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or complex regional pain syndrome
Our procedures are provided under fluoroscopic or ultrasound guidance.
They include, but are not limited to:
Cancer pain management
Discograpy
Epidurolysis and epidural steroid injections
Intrathecal drug delivery systems for pain and spasticity management
Facet joint injection
Neurolysis
Neurostimulation
Paravertebral sympathetic blocks
Peripheral nerve stimulator
Phantom limb pain management
Post-herpetic neuralgia management
Pudendal and selective nerve blocks
Spinal cord stimulators
Stellate ganglion and interscalene blocks
Intercostal nerve blocks
Joint injections (sacroiliac joint)
These techniques may help patients pain duration and severity, allow for
an increase in activities at home and work, learn new skills for coping
with pain, determine ways to end sleep problems, improve quality of life,
and rehabilitate.
