Pain Management
If you are struggling with chronic pain, UNC Hospitals Pain Management Center is here to help. We are committed to helping patients improve their quality of life and restore their ability to function.
Each of our board-certified anesthesiologists have received specialized training in pain management and are able to use this experience to help determine the patient’s source of pain and customize a treatment plan. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, we are able to target pain in various ways from more conservative options to interventional procedures.
Our services are complemented by physical therapists, specialized pain psychologists and clinical pharmacists to address all aspects of a patient’s pain.
Types of Pain Treated
- Chronic back pain
- Cervical neck pain, "whiplash"
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD)
- Neuropathic Pain
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Herpetic and post-herpetic neuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Disc pain, facet and nerve root pain
- Cancer related pain
- Pelvic pain
- Post-surgical and failed back syndrome
- Post-traumatic pain
- Sports injuries
- Workplace injuries
- Acute exacerbations of chronic pain syndromes
Types of Treatment
Because each patient's needs are unique, we offer innovative clinical techniques for treating an array of painful conditions, including:
- Rehabilitation
- Behavior modification
- Relaxation techniques and biofeedback
- Pharmacological treatment
- Psychological evaluation and treatment
- Other clinically proven, evidence based alternatives
We also provide the expertise to implement a wide range of medical and surgical interventions both on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Specifically, these include:
- Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and caudal epidural steroid injections
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Continuous infusion catheters (peripheral nerve, epidural, and intrathecal)
- Sympathetic ganglia nerve blocks such as sphenopalatine, cervicothoracic, lumbar sympathetic, celiac plexus, superior and inferior hypogastric, and impar ganglia
- Intra-articular facet injections
- Medial branch blocks (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar)
- Radio frequency thermocoagulation (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar)
- Neurolytic procedures for peripheral nerves
- Trigger point injections
- Discography
- Neuromodulation techniques with implantable technology for peripheral or central nervous system (spinal cord stimulation)
- Psychological evaluation and therapy
Your Care Team
At UNC Hospitals Pain Management Center, you have a complete team of health care professionals, working closely with your physician. The team includes:
Clinical Pain Psychologists:
Amy Goetzinger, PhD
Skye Margolies, PhD
Seema Patidar, PhD
Clinical Pharmacists:
Nora Talley, PharmD, CPP
Physicians:
Brad Brown, MD
Brooke Chidgey, MD
Dominika James, MD
Maryam Jowza, M.D.
Andrew Lobonc, MD
Matthew Mauck, MD
Irina Phillips, MD
Nurse Practitioner:
Jamie Thompson, MSN, FNP-C
Administration:
Heather Ritchie -Director of Clinical Programs
Stephanie Crossgrove - Clinic Manager
Lynn “Renee” Klein RN, PSM 1
