Comprehensive Pain Management Center at UH Parma Medical Center
With two convenient locations in Parma and North Royalton, the Comprehensive Pain Management Center at UH Parma Medical Center provides Parma and surrounding communities with a multidisciplinary approach to treating chronic pain. This patient-centered program comprises a variety of treatment modalities aimed at fulfilling the local need for a more comprehensive approach to pain.
Schedule an appointment
Call 440-743-4333 to schedule an office visit today.Seamless Access to Comprehensive Care
The center is designed to provide seamless access to comprehensive care for chronic pain, so that the full range of our medical, physical and psychological services can easily be explored, with the goals of safely decreasing patients’ pain and improving their functioning.
Pain management is an art in which a trusted pain specialist tailors a patient’s treatment in order to preserve, regain and/or improve their quality of life in such a way that incorporates total patient involvement and empowerment.
Specialties that Encompass our Comprehensive Approach to Pain
The Comprehensive Pain Management Center builds on existing treatments for management of chronic pain:
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We offer nerve and joint injections and other forms of interventional pain management:
Nerve and Joint Injections
- Facet joint injections
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Transforaminal steroid injection
- Trigger point injection
Other Options:
- Intrathecal drug delivery
- Medications
- Neuromodulation (surgical placement of nerve stimulators)
- Surgical Ablation of the nerves inside the bone plates (radiofrequency ablation)
- Surgical spinal decompression (Vertiflex Procedure)
- Physical rehabilitation
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services
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Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) is used to evaluate and treat both acute and chronic pain, including physical and/or cognitive impairments and disabilities resulting from musculoskeletal, neurological and other conditions. Our PM&R services include:
- Muscular skeletal ultrasound assessment
- Spinal injections
- Treatment of traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury:
- Injections – joint, trigger, tendon, hydrodissections and spine (cervical, thoracic, lumbar)
- MSK ultrasound assessment and US-guided procedures
- Regenerative medicine/orthobiologic procedures
- Osteopathic manipulative treatment
- UH Connor Whole Health
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To complement our integrated approach to pain management, we offer chiropractic care, massage therapy and integrative/lifestyle health medical consults through University Hospitals’ UH Connor Whole Health:
Chiropractic care helps restore proper balance and function to the body’s structural, spinal and neurological systems. Evidence supports this drug-free approach for a variety of conditions, including back pain, neck pain, headaches, sciatica and pain in the muscles and joints of arms and legs. Specific treatments in this area include:
- Spinal manipulation
- Manual therapies (soft tissue treatments)
- Dry needling
- Therapeutic exercise
- Kinetic taping
Massage therapy is a way to help patients, staff and visitors achieve mental and physical well-being. Massage has been used for thousands of years to relieve tension caused by a variety of conditions and factors. Massage treatments we offer include:
- Neuromuscular therapy
- Relaxation
- Trigger point therapy
- Deep tissue
Integrative/lifestyle medicine consults: Integrative health affirms the importance of the relationship between the patient and care provider and focuses on the whole person. It makes use of all appropriate therapeutic and lifestyle approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and pain management. Consultations are covered by most commercial insurance plans, Medicare and Medicaid. Consultations include:
- Discussion of lifestyle habits: nutrition, sleep hygiene, movement and stress management
- Review of health history, current health concerns, medications and supplements
- Creation of a personalized health plan: small and large steps to get you on track
- Scheduling follow-ups to help support and maintain better pain management control
- Also, a full complement of virtual services, including guided meditation, mindfulness and yoga, are offered through our Connor Resilience Center.
- Physical and Occupational Therapy
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Physical therapists are mobility experts who maximizes a person’s quality of life through hands-on care, patient education and movement. The CDC recommends physical therapy as a safer alternative to other pain management techniques for certain conditions and circumstances. Occupational therapists are functional and upper extremity experts who focus on optimizing a person’s ability to perform everyday living activities, including working, self-care, home management and leisure. They help people of all ages with injuries, illnesses or disabilities by adapting the environment or task to fit the person, thereby promoting optimal health and better living. Physical and occupational therapies we offer include:
- Aquatic therapy
- Body mechanics
- Mobility training
- Exercise
- Strengthening
- Desensitization
- Dry needling
- Ergonomics
- Graded motor imagery/mirror therapy
- Hand therapy
- Manual therapy
- McKenzie approach
- Modalities such as functional electrical stimulation, kinesiotaping and fluidotherapy
- Orthopedic rehab
- Pain science education
- Pelvic floor therapy
- Work conditioning, work simulation or return-to-work rehab
- Dry cupping
- Behavioral Therapy
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Patients coping with chronic pain may also struggle with depression, anxiety or other behavioral health issues. Behavioral health specialists can help patients with these issues and even improve their perception of pain. Services we offer in this area include:
- Individual psychotherapy
- Family psychotherapy
- Activity pacing training
- Sleep hygiene training
- Assertiveness training
- Pain crisis planning
- Development of employment and pain-coping strategies
- Development of nonmedication coping strategies
- Addiction psychiatry
- Outpatient detoxification
- Psychotherapy (individual and group)
- Intensive outpatient program
- Addiction Services
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Some patients struggling with substance abuse also suffer from chronic pain. At the Comprehensive Pain Management Center, we offer adults, children and adolescents a number of outpatient addiction treatment services designed to address the patient’s addiction, as well as other physical and emotional symptoms.
Our Locations
UH Parma Medical Center
Medical Arts Center 1
6681 Ridge Road
Parma, OH 44129
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Call: 440-743-4333
UH Parma Medical Center OP Rehab
North Royalton YMCA
11409 State Road
North Royalton, OH 44133
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Types of Pain Treated at the Comprehensive Pain Management Center
Chronic pain can affect nearly any part of the human body. Examples of the various types of pain we have experience treating are:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Joint pain
- Sciatica (back, buttocks, legs)
- Pain that radiates (radicular pain)
- Spinal stenosis (narrowing of spine)
- Arthritic pain
- Hip and leg pain
- Chest wall pain
- Hand and foot pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Nerve pain and shingles pain (neuralgia and neuropathic pain)
- Disc and vertebrae pain
- Pain from failed back surgery
- Pain after lung removal (post-thoracotomy pain syndrome)
- Face and eye pain (trigeminal and occipital neuralgia)
- Fibromyalgia (muscle pain and tenderness)
- Headache/migraine pain
- Pain associated with opioid dependency and opioid use disorder
- Emotional and psychological pain