Pain Management

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Chronic pain affects an estimated 86 million Americans. Fremont Surgery Center offers a comprehensive pain management program with board-certified pain management physicians who perform a number of therapeutic techniques to relieve long-term pain. In addition to performing routine epidural blocks and radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) medial branch rhizotomy for long-term pain relief, specialists at Fremont Surgery Center also implant stimulant pumps, a neurosurgical procedure.

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Pain management procedures are most commonly performed under conscious sedation, but can also be safely performed under a local anesthetic.  Our nurses who administer the conscious sedation at the direction of your physician  are specially trained for your safety and comfort.

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Pain management procedures performed at Fremont Surgery Center include:

 

- Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, an caudal Epidural steroid injection

- Radiofrequency thermocoagulation

- Spinal cord stimulator implant trial and permanent placement

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