Chronic pain can be debilitating and life altering. Mercy’s NSI includes the Pain Management Center, providing an array of diagnostic and therapeutic services, NSI physicians use a multi-disciplinary approach to pain management that is coordinated with your primary care physician and other medical specialists. Treatments range from highly specific x-ray directed injections to interventional pain management techniques.

Among the conditions we treat are:

• Chronic lower back pain

• Peripheral nerve injury

• Cervical strain

• Pain resulting from poor circulation or complications of diabetes

• Fibromyalgia and muscle pain

• Other pain syndromes

Mercy’s Pain Pals: The Pain Support Group

Mercy Health Center offers a unique chronic pain support group for patients, families and friends who have a loved one suffering with chronic pain. Pain Pals is a support system that follows a program outlined in the book, “Managing Pain Before It Manages You,” by Margaret A. Caudill, MD, PhD. Each chapter identifies methods to manage, function and cope with chronic pain. Limited to 15 individuals, the group attends a series of classes during which pharmacists, nutritionists, physical therapists, and other medical professionals share their expertise.