Treatments for Chronic Pain
We understand that chronic pain can hinder your everyday activities. Our specialists work with you to find treatments that can help relieve your pain.
Chronic pain can have many causes, such as injuries, certain illnesses, conditions present from birth, or changes that happen with aging. At the Pain Management Clinic, we offer outpatient care and a variety of treatments to help reduce your pain, improve how you move and feel, and enhance your overall quality of life.
Pain Conditions That We Treat
We treat a wide range of pain conditions, from common issues like back and joint pain to more complex nerve-related and chronic pain disorders.
- Cervical spine pain
- Cervical radiculitis (compression or irritation of a nerve in the neck) and arm pain
- Facial pain
- Neck pain
- Low back pain
- Lumbar radiculitis, also known as sciatica (painful inflammation of a nerve root in the lower back)
- Thoracic back pain (in the middle or upper portion of the back)
- Peripheral neuropathic pain
- Painful diabetic neuropathy
- Complex regional pain syndrome (Types I and II)
- Pelvic and abdominal pain
- Post-amputation pain (PAP)
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Pudendal neuralgia
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Postsurgical pain
- Hip, knee and shoulder disorders, including arthritis
- Bursa-related pain (affecting the small, fluid-filled sacs near joints that cushion bones, tendons and muscles)
- Spinal compression fractures
- Head pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Cancer pain, including bony metastatic disease
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Our Cancer Pain Service
The UC Davis Pain Management Clinic has a longstanding record of treating cancer-related pain compassionately and effectively. Our Cancer Pain Service, under the direction of David Copenhaver, M.D., conducts outpatient and inpatient consultations for any patient with pain related to cancer. Physicians specially trained in anesthesia, internal medicine, psychiatry, psychology and rehabilitation staff this service, which functions as a resource to the entire UC Davis Health network. Consultations also are available for clinicians from other health systems or in independent practice.
The Cancer Pain Service was established to:
- conduct the most medically advanced clinical services
- train clinicians from all disciplines of healthcare
- advance effective pain-reduction therapy for patients with cancer though research.
We perform care for hospitalized patients as well as outpatients with malignancy-related pain. Because cancer that causes pain typically has advanced and may involve complications, the clinicians in our Cancer Pain Service are astute in making assessments and calling upon the widest therapeutic repertoire available anywhere.
Registered nurses, an integral part of the care team, work directly with patients and clinicians through all phases of care. Many of our nurses are board-certified in pain management through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.