Patient Care
Services
The services offered by University of Florida physicians at the Shands Jacksonville Pain Management Center include:
- Comprehensive evaluation and pain management treatment planning
- Medical management stabilization
- Pain abatement interventional therapy
Neuromodulative percutaneous procedures offered include:
- Diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic peripheral and central nerve blocks
- Sympathetic plexus blockade including sphenopalatine ganglion, stellate ganglion, paravertebral sympathetic, celiac plexus and superior hypogastric plexus
- Neurolytic blocks including radiofrequency, cryoanalgesic and chemical
Musculoskeletal treatment includes:
- Muscle trigger point and BOTOX® injections
- Tendon, bursa and peri-articular steroid injections
- Intra-articular injections of steroid and viscosupplements (e.g. SYNVISC)
- Minimally invasive intervertebral disc decompressive nucleoplasties
- Kypoplasty and vertebroplasty for vertebral compression fractures
Surgical procedures offered include:
- Intrathecal pump placement
- Long-term subcutaneous tunneled epidural catheters
- Radiofrequency neurolytic rhizotomies
- Spinal cord stimulator placement
Complementary medicine services offered include acupuncture.
Long-term management programs include:
- Analysis-programming of epidural and subarachnoid drug delivery systems
- Spinal cord stimulators
- Cancer pain and symptom management
Diseases and Syndromes Treated
UF physicians at the Shands Jacksonville Pain Management Center treat adults, teenagers and children with acute, chronic and cancer pain.
Non-painful conditions treated include:
- Hyperhidrosis
- Spastic movement disorders resulting from cerebral palsy and central nervous system lesions
- Vascular insufficiency and Raynauds disease
Chronic non-malignant painful conditions treated include:
- Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar degenerative disc and facet disease and herniated discs
- Facial pain and Trigeminal neuralgia
- Headaches
- Lumbosacral and cervical neuritis
- Myofascial pain
- Occipital neuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Post laminectomy/failed back surgery syndrome
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia, complex regional pain syndrome
- Spinal stenosis, spondylosis, and spondylolithesis
- Vertebral compression fractures from osteoporosis and cancer
- Pelvic pain and interstitial cystitis
- Testalgia
To learn more about the department's clinical services, please visit the Shands Jacksonville Pain Management Center.
Locations
Pain Management Center at Shands Jacksonville
Shands Pavilion, Second Floor
1900 Boulevard St.
Jacksonville, FL 32206
Appointments and referrals: (904) 244-7246