Nerve Blocks at Advanced Pain Management Center

Often a group of nerves, called a plexus or ganglion, that causes pain to a specific part of the body can be blocked with the injection of medication into tissue adjacent to the nerve. The injection of this nerve-numbing substance is called a nerve block.

Therapeutic nerve blocks: used to treat painful conditions with a local anesthetic to control acute pain.
Diagnostic nerve blocks are used to determine sources of pain. These blocks typically contain an anesthetic with a known duration of relief.
Prognostic nerve blocks predict the outcomes of given treatments. For example, a nerve block may be performed to determine if more permanent treatments (such as surgery) to block the activity of a nerve would be successful in treating pain.
Preemptive nerve blocks are meant to prevent subsequent pain from a procedure that can cause problems including phantom limb pain.
Nerve blocks can be used, in some cases, to avoid surgery.
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Located in central Ohio, in Westerville just north of Columbus, Advanced Pain Management Center was established to treat individuals suffering from chronic disabling pain. Our medical practice offers a fully integrated and comprehensive pain management.

Our pain clinic offers a complete set advanced pain management techniques and procedures to deal with all types of acute pain or chronic pain. Whether it is back pain, neck pain, knee pain, fibromyalgia, or even if you are not sure where the pain is originating, Dr Chen has the diagnostic tools and expert experience to determine the source and cause of your pain and effectively treat it. Dr Chen has medical degrees in the US and China. Dr Chen has completed training in 2 world class hospitals in the US: an anesthesiology residency at UAMS and a pain fellowship at renowned MD Anderson in Houston Texas. (Here is Dr Chen’s brief bio in English or in Chinese). Whether if it is powerful pain prescriptions, join injections, pain pumps or alternatives like acupuncture Ti chi, or nutritional consultation, Dr Chen has it all for discrete conservative effective comprehensive pain relief that will contribute to healing health and improved quality of life. What we are about and our philosophy is advanced individualized pain contol for each patient. You may use our contact form or call 614-882-1434

Procedures and services offered and described in the tabs above include: Variety of Nerve Block Radio Frequency Denervation Epidural Steroid Injection, Botox Injection, Ultrasound Guided Joint Injection, Spinal Cord Stimulator and Intrathecal Pump Management, Selective Nerve Scan, Hyalgan Injection, Facet Joint Injection, Disc Decompression, Nutritional Consultation for Headache, Arthritis, and Chronic Pain, Acupuncture, and Opiod Management.