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The multi-disciplinary Pain Management Program includes a team of specialists who provide a wide range of services to relieve chronic, non-malignant and cancer pain, employing interventional, therapeutic, and behavioral approaches.  Physicians-in-training, residents, and fellows rotate through the chronic pain clinic for exposure to a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures include: epidural steroid injections, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve blocks, placement of epidural catheters or intrathecal pumps for home infusion therapy with local anesthetic and/or pain medicines, neuroaugmentation implantable devices (spinal cord stimulators), neurolytic nerve blocks, radiofrequency procedures, intradiscal procedures, TENS, physical and occupational therapy, biofeedback, medical hypnosis, pain medication titration and maintenance, and cognitive-behavioral techniques such as individual, group, or family psychotherapy.

Pain management services are offered on an outpatient basis at the , Center for Health at Homer Glen, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, and the .