Mercy Pain Center in Janesville Offers Relief To Your Patients
February 2006
As a physician, you know that pain can be debilitating for patients, interfering with all aspects of their day-to-day lives. The management of pain can be equally as problematic for the treating physician. The Mercy Pain Center (MPC) offers your patients a wide variety of interventional and noninterventional, nonsurgical treatments for spine and back pain, neuropathic pain from trauma, surgery or metabolic disease, and cancer pain. The Mercy Pain Center works with the Mercy Institute of Neuroscience for patients requiring interventional pain management as well.
Over 275 patients are seen at MPC each month. Injections are done four days a week. The fifth day is dedicated to procedures and visits not requiring image guidance. Mercy Pain Center services include:
- Blocks
- Transforaminal nerve
- Coeliac plexus
- Gasserian and stellate ganglion
- Intercostal nerve
- Lumbar sympathetic
- Medial branch
- Paravertebral
- Peripheral
- Popliteal fossa
- Splanchnic nerve
- Diagnostic and therapeutic injections for back and spine pain problems
- Diagnostic and therapeutic injections for reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Epidurals and facet injections
- Implantation of pain pumps and neurostimulators
- Management of intractable cancer pain
- Management of neuropathic pain problems
- Neurolytic injections for neuropathic or cancer pain
- Outpatient consultation on complex pain problems
- Outpatient medication management for chronic pain patients
- Placement of dorsal column stimulators for intractable spine and/or neuropathic pain
- Placement of sympathetic catheters
- Placement of temporary and permanent pain pumps for intractable pain, including cancer pain
- Radiofrequency ablation for facet-mediated pain
- Temporary and tunneled catheters for pain control
- Treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia
- Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
- Trigger point injections
Each patient who visits MPC requires an established primary care physician to assure that his or her basic medical needs are addressed. All MPC services require a physician referral and an appointment.
MPC has outgrown its location in the urgent care area at Mercy Hospital and will soon be moving to the ground floor of Mercy Hospital, in the space formerly occupied by human resources. “This will allow MPC to see more patients and to process them with greater efficiency, privacy and comfort.
Dr. Nemerovski also offers pain management services at Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center and Mercy Harvard Hospital Clinic.
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