Pain Management

Why Choose Mount Nittany Health Pain Management?

Our compassionate team is here for you when you’re dealing with pain that just won’t quit, whether it’s from an accident, injury, or another condition that has you seeking relief beyond the usual healing process. Sometimes treatments like physical therapy, steroids, or pain medications may not provide the comfort you need. Pain Management is an off-campus outpatient department run by Mount Nittany Medical Center dedicated to helping you find relief.

Our Approach

Our pain management specialists work with you to determine what treatment is best for you. Most procedures are performed on an outpatient basis to return patients to normal activities soon after treatment.

Talk with your physician about a referral. Most of our patients qualify for insurance coverage. Consult your insurance provider to confirm.

Pain Management Conditions We Treat

• Back and lower extremity pain
• Cancer pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Failed back injury syndrome
• Head, neck, and upper extremity pain
• Most other chronic pain conditions
• Musculoskeletal pain
• Neuralgia and neuropathy (pain from nerve injuries and diabetes)
• Sciatic pain
• Spasticity (stiff or rigid muscles or unusual tightness)
• Torticollis (a twisted neck condition)

Pain Management Treatments / Services

You’ll find a full range of interventional pain management therapies to help you relieve and manage chronic pain, including the following services and treatments:

• BOTOX injections for chronic migraines, spasticity, and cervical dystonia
• Disk procedures: Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD)
• Epidural and subarachnoid neurolysis
• Facial pain injections and C2 trigeminal nerve injections
• Intrathecal and epidural infusion for chronic, non-malignant pain, cancer pain and spasticity
• Intrathecal pain pump
• Joint injections
• Radiofrequency nerve ablation for chronic shoulder, knee, and hip pain
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Spinal diagnostics: selective nerve root and facet nerve blocks, C2 dorsal root injections and atlantoaxial injections
• Traditional and pulsed radio frequency ablation
• Trigger point injections

Shoulder, Knee, and Hip Pain Treatment

We are pleased to offer radiofrequency nerve ablation for patients experiencing chronic shoulder, knee, or hip pain – a common and, at times, debilitating condition. Using radiofrequency nerve ablation, improvement in pain is possible in patients for whom surgery, medication, or physical therapy have not resolved the condition. Benefits of this procedure include:

• In-office treatment
• Medicare coverage
• Minimal invasion
• No downtime
• Non-opioid option
• Results lasting six-12 months (can be repeated if needed)