Interventional Pain Management

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:

• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Occupational Health
• Physical and Occupational Therapy
• Psychiatry

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.