Our outpatient Pain Treatment Clinic is conveniently located at UAB Hospital-Highlands, which offers easy access and free parking. It focuses on managing pain for patients with both acute and chronic (ongoing) pain, and it is staffed by physicians who have trained extensively in pain management. The clinic’s range of services includes traditional therapies such as epidural steroid injections, joint and bursa injections, muscular trigger point injections, and nerve blocks. For patients with more severe or persistent pain, we offer advanced treatments such as high-frequency spinal cord stimulation and dorsal root ganglion stimulation.

The types of treatments and related services performed by the Pain Treatment Clinic for chronic and acute pain include:

• Lumbar and cervical epidural steroid injections for disc problems, spinal stenosis, and chronic back pain
• Facet medical branch blocks for back pain and degenerative joint disease
• Sympathetic ganglion blocks for complex regional pain syndrome
• Sacroiliac joint, hip, and knee injections for degenerative joint disease
• Trigger point injections for muscle pain
• Radiofrequency nerve ablation
• Spinal cord stimulator implantation
• Outpatient consults
• Pain psychology assessments and cognitive behavior therapy