Pain Conditions
Pain Management Doctor in Steubenville, OH
Numerous medical conditions, illnesses, and injuries can cause pain. The best option is to identify the likely culprit and then treat it so as to rid yourself of the pain altogether. However, in many cases, there may be no definitive cure for your underlying condition – in which case, controlling your symptoms becomes the medical goal.
At Premier Pain and Anesthesiology, Dr. Luxmi Gahlot and her staff help patients control their pain, no matter what the cause, to restore their quality of life. We’ll do our best to ensure that pain doesn’t keep you from living your life.
The following are just some of the most common types of pain (and conditions that cause pain) that we see and treat:
Stomachaches and other types of abdominal pain are extremely common. The location, pattern, and duration of abdominal pain are important to help determine its cause. Many sudden and severe cases of abdominal pain require emergency medical attention, such as appendicitis or pancreatitis.
Chronic abdominal pain, on the other hand, may require pain management treatment, including when the abdominal pain is due to:
- Cancer
- Functional pain that has been present for more than six months and doesn’t appear to be due to a specific physical cause
- Inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
- Menstrual cramps
- Peptic ulcers
Treatment of abdominal pain will depend on its cause and the intensity of a patient’s symptoms. Medication, nerve blocks, trigger point injections, and spinal cord stimulation may be all be considered as part of a pain management plan for abdominal pain.
If you think about it, your feet take a beating every day. In addition to supporting your body weight, your feet and ankles provide stability and cushioning when you walk, run, jump, or even dance. Ill-fitting footwear and improper cushioning or arch support can add to the trauma your feet suffer and lead to chronic pain, blisters, bruises, fractures, and more.
There are a number of ankle and foot problems that may require pain management treatment, including:
- Achilles tendonitis or tears
- Ankle instability
- Arthritis
- Bone spurs
- Bunions
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Flatfoot
- Fracture
- Gout
- Injury
- Ligament sprains
- Muscle strain
- Nerve damage or inflammation
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Plantar fasciitis
- Repetitive strain
- Shin splints
- Sprains and strains
- Stress fractures
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Tendonitis
- Toe deformities like mallet toe, hammertoe
- Trauma
When you experience pain anywhere in your arm, it can significantly disrupt your life. You might not realize how much you depend on your hands, wrists, arms, and elbows until you are unable to move and function without pain. That is why seeking timely help for your arm pain is important.
Once the underlying cause of your arm pain is successfully treated – or if no cause can be found – then sometimes all it takes to break the cycle of pain is a single pain management treatment. This can be done using a variety of interventional and medical pain management techniques, depending on what hurts and why.
Common causes of arm pain and elbow pain that we treat at Premier Pain and Anesthesia include:
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- DeQuervain’s tendinitis
- Elbow strain and sprain
- Fractures
- Ganglion cyst
- Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Hand and wrist arthritis
- Injury
- Nerve damage or inflammation
- Olecranon bursitis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phantom limb pain
- Pinched nerves
- Pitcher’s elbow
- Repetitive stress disorders
- Sprains and strains
- Tendonitis
- Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
- Tenosynovitis
- Trauma
- Trigger finger
- Ulnar neuropathy
- Wrist or hand sprain or strain
Simply put, arthritis is inflammation of a joint – that place in the body where bones meet. Arthritis causes pain, swelling, and stiffness. It can occur anywhere in the body, although arthritis tends to be most problematic in the weight-bearing joints such as the ankles, knees, and hips, as well as the back and neck.
Osteoarthritis – the most common type of arthritis – occurs due to normal wear and tear over time. There is no cure for it. In the spine, this type of degenerative arthritis is called spondylosis, while ankylosing spondylitis is a type of inflammatory arthritis that most often affects the spine.
Many patients with arthritis experience symptom relief through both interventional pain management and medical pain management approaches.
Back pain – especially low back pain – is one of the most common issues that drive people to seek the help of a pain management physician like Dr. Luxmi Gahlot. There are a wide variety of pain management therapies available for back pain depending on its cause, location, and intensity.
At Premier Pain and Anesthesia, we treat the following:
- Low back pain
- Mid back pain
- Upper back pain
We also treat patients with back pain due to:
- Ankylosing spondylitis (inflammatory arthritis of the spine)
- Arthritis
- Back injury or strain
- Cancer
- Compression fractures of the spine
- Degenerative arthritis of the spine
- Degenerative disc disease
- Facet joint syndrome
- Herniated discs
- Kyphosis
- Muscle spasm
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Nerve damage or inflammation
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Pinched nerves
- Piriformis syndrome
- Post-laminectomy syndrome
- Radiculopathy (muscle spasm nerve impingement)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica (lumbar radiculopathy)
- Scoliosis
- Slipped disc
- Slips and falls
- Spinal arthritis
- Spinal infection
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolysis (stress fracture)
- Spondylolisthesis (slipped vertebra)
- Sports injury
- Sprains and strains
- Surgery
- Tendonitis or other tendon injuries
- Thoracic back strain
- Trauma
- And much more
Chronic pain conditions and other types of pain treated at Premier Pain and Anesthesia include:
- Central pain syndrome
- Chronic headaches
- Chronic tension headaches
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Metastatic cancer
- Migraines
- Occipital neuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Peripheral vascular disease pain
- Phantom limb pain
- Post-herniorraphy pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia pain
- Post-stroke pain
- Post-surgical pain
- Whiplash headaches
The bones of the spine, or vertebrae, are separated by rubbery discs, which provide cushioning and hold the vertebrae together while allowing movement such as bending or twisting. Over time, these spinal discs can shrink and become less stable or even collapse, which can lead to back or neck pain.
If you experience pain, it may range from nagging to disabling. It may be accompanied by numbness and weakness that radiates to the limbs.
The first line of treatment for degenerative disc disease is typically a combination of medication and physical therapy. Some interventional pain management techniques may be helpful such as epidural injections, facet injections, and more.
This medical condition causes widespread muscle pain and tenderness throughout the body, and it’s more common than you might think. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that an estimated 5 million American adults have fibromyalgia. Additional symptoms may include fatigue, headaches, memory problems, and anxiety or depression.
Patients often turn to nerve blocks, pain medication, or anti-inflammatories for symptom relief. Treating a patient’s stress, anxiety, and depression can also help mitigate the pain associated with fibromyalgia.
Headaches are extremely common. Practically everyone has experienced a headache at some point in their lives. However, when headaches are chronic – persistent, recurring, and long-lasting – or severely debilitating, as migraines can be, the pain can completely derail your life. The causes of headaches run the gamut, from stress or lack of sleep to infections and more serious medical conditions.
Treating your headaches or migraines will depend on the frequency and intensity of your symptoms. Medication is probably the most common treatment approach, but it doesn’t just include pain relievers. In some cases, beta-blockers, antidepressants, and Botox can help relieve migraine-related pain.
Your hip is a ball-and-socket joint that joins the pelvis and legs. The low back and buttocks are in the same region and may also be the cause of or impacted by problems that can result in hip or pelvic pain.
A wide variety of issues can cause hip pain or pelvic pain, including:
- Arthritis
- Avascular necrosis
- Bone spurs
- Bursitis
- Cartilage damage
- Dislocations
- Hip arthritis
- Hip fractures
- Hip sprain or strain
- Iliotibial (IT) band syndrome
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Kyphosis
- Menstrual cramps
- Osteoporosis
- Pinched nerves
- Piriformis syndrome
- Repetitive motion, as from running
- Sciatica
- Slips and falls
- Spinal problems
- Tendonitis
- Trochanteric bursitis
- Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
The knee joint is particularly susceptible to damage. As a weight-bearing hinge joint, it allows the leg to extend and move back and forth while absorbing significant stress and trauma. Age, athletic activity, and certain underlying diseases (such as arthritis) can make you more likely to incur a knee injury and suffer from knee pain.
At Premier Pain and Anesthesia, we help patients manage their knee pain that may result from a number of conditions, including:
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Cartilage damage
- Chondromalacia patella
- Iliotibial (IT) band syndrome
- Patellar dislocation and instability
- Ligament (ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL) tears or sprains
- Meniscus tear
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Repetitive stress
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Shin splints
- Sports injury
- Sprains and strains
- Patellar (knee) tendonitis or tear
- Trauma
Neck pain is one of the most common issues that drive people to seek the help of a pain management physician like Dr. Luxmi Gahlot. There are a wide variety of pain management therapies that can help, depending on the cause, location, and intensity of your neck pain.
At Premier Pain and Anesthesia, we treat a wide range of conditions that can cause neck pain, including:
- Ankylosing spondylitis (inflammatory arthritis of the spine)
- Arthritis
- Back injury or strain
- Cancer
- Cervical disc herniation
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Cervical sprain or strain
- Compression fractures of the spine
- Degenerative arthritis of the spine
- Degenerative disc disease
- Facet joint syndrome
- Herniated discs
- Kyphosis
- Muscle spasm
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Neck injury or strain
- Nerve damage or inflammation
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Pinched nerves
- Post-laminectomy syndrome
- Radiculopathy (muscle spasm nerve impingement)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica (lumbar radiculopathy)
- Scoliosis
- Slipped disc
- Slips and falls
- Spinal arthritis
- Spinal infection
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolysis (stress fracture)
- Spondylolisthesis (slipped vertebra)
- Sports injury
- Sprains and strains
- Surgery
- Tendonitis or other tendon injuries
- Thoracic back strain
- Trauma
- Whiplash
- And much more
The shoulder is one of the largest, most complex joints in the body. It allows a huge a range of motion in almost every conceivable direction and thus is more susceptible to injury. Shoulder pain may be dull or stabbing, chronic or acute. It commonly results in a limited range of motion, so you’ll want to get treated (and get moving) as soon as possible.
Causes of shoulder pain treated at Premier Pain and Anesthesia include:
- Arthritis
- Biceps tendonitis
- Bone spurs
- Bursitis
- Dislocation or instability
- Collarbone fractures
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Impingement
- Labral (cartilage) tears
- Nerve damage or inflammation
- Overuse
- Pinched nerve
- Rotator cuff injuries and tears
- Shoulder arthritis
- Shoulder impingement
- Shoulder instability
- Sports injury
- Sprains or strains
- Swimmer’s shoulder
- Tendonitis or tendon tears
At Premier Pain and Anesthesia, we treat the following:
- Back injuries
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Dislocations
- Fractures
- Golfer's elbow
- Hip, foot, and ankle pain
- Knee injuries and conditions
- Lower back pain
- Muscle spasm
- Neck injuries
- Neck pain
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Shin splints
- Shoulder injuries
- Shoulder pain
- Sprains and strains
- Tennis elbow
At Premier Pain and Anesthesia, we offer a variety of interventional pain management and medical pain management treatment options to help alleviate your pain, no matter the cause.
There is no need to continue to live in pain. Get your pain symptoms under control today by contacting Premier Pain and Anesthesia in Steubenville, Ohio. Call (740) 792-4110 or request your appointment to find out how we can help, no matter the medical condition, illness, or injury that is causing your pain.