What is pain management?
Advanced pain management that extends beyond medication
At MedStar Health, you’ll find pain management experts who won’t just write a medication prescription and send you on your way. In fact, once we identify the source of your pain, our first approach to relieving your pain typically involves interventions to manage your pain while limiting the need for opiods. There are many effective and safe ways to minimize your pain, restore function, and improve your quality of life without relying on opiod medications. From cortisol injections to neuromodulation techniques that stop pain signals from traveling to the brain, we’ll develop a treatment plan that uses a variety of techniques to meet your individual needs and goals. Servicing patients in the Washington DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Virginia areas.What to expect
Each pain management plan is tailored specifically to your needs, minimizing opioid medication when possible. Before, during, and after your procedure, your pain management team will work to aggressively minimize your pain while limiting the need for opioid medications.
Your pain management plan may include one or a combination of the following approaches:
- Epidural injections – Local anesthetics are injected near nerves to reduce pain and inflammation
- Nerve blocks – Medication is injected around large nerve groups to reduce pain in a specific area of the body
- Spinal stimulation – Using a small, handheld device to stimulate nerves through the spine and reduce pain
- Opioid medications – Pills taken orally to manage pain
Our goal is to keep you safe and help you feel as comfortable as possible so you can get back to living the life you love.
Questions to ask your pain management team
- Are pain injections safe?
- Do pain management treatments hurt?
- Am I at risk for a bad reaction?
- How many pain management treatments will I need?
Our pain management experts
You’ll benefit from our team approach as we work closely with other medical specialists to best meet your needs, including:
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Physical therapy
- Psychology
Services offered
All treatments are tailored to meet individual needs. Our services are based on the biopsychosocial model of pain intervention and benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. These include:
- Independent comprehensive evaluation
- Medical evaluation
- Rehabilitative evaluation
- Functional capacity assessment
- AMA disability determination
- Vocational assessment
- Psychological evaluations
- Medical and pharmacologic management
- Neural blockade (spinal cord stimulators, pumps)
- Radiofrequency lesioning
- Physical therapy and conditioning
- Occupational therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Biofeedback
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
- Acupuncture and acupressure
- Relaxation and stress management training
- Individual and group therapy programs
- Patient educational programs
- Spinal injection techniques - precise applications of steroids or other indication to the spine under X-ray (fluoroscope) guidance
- Joint applications of steroids
- Diagnostic procedures of the spine, including discography, intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET)
- Spinal implantation of advanced pain management devices (spinal cord stimulators and infusion pumps)
Our providers
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Pain Management Specialists
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Thomas Phillip Cestare, MD
Pain Medicine
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Matthew R. Hansen, MD
Pain Medicine
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Arash Khoie, MD
Pain Medicine
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Malady Santhosh Kodgi, MBBS, MD
Pain Medicine
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Ayasha L. Williams-Sharron, MD
Pain Medicine
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Our locations
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MedStar Health: Pain Management at Alexandria
6355 Walker Lane Ste. 501 Alexandria, VA 22310
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Annapolis
810 Bestgate Road Ste. 310 Annapolis, MD 21401
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Bel Air
12 MedStar Blvd Ste. 300 Bel Air, MD 21015
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Brandywine
13950 Brandywine Road Ste. 225 Brandywine, MD 20613
Miles away
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Chevy Chase
5454 Wisconsin Ave. 11th Floor Chevy Chase, MD 20815
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Hyattsville
6475 New Hampshire Ave. Ste. 150 Hyattsville, MD 20783
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Lafayette Centre
1133 21st Street NW 5th Fl. Washington, DC 20036
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Lorton
9455 Lorton Market Street Ste. 200 Lorton, VA 22079
MedStar Health: Pain Management at McLean Beverly Road
1420 Beverly Rd. Ste. 210 McLean, VA 22102
MedStar Health: Pain Management at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center
9000 Franklin Square Dr. 2nd Floor Baltimore, MD 21237
MedStar Health: Pain Management at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
18109 Prince Philip Dr. Ste. 155 Olney, MD 20832
MedStar Health: Pain Management at National Rehabilitation Network
102 Irving St., NW First Floor - Physician Center Washington, DC 20010
MedStar Health: Pain Management at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
3333 N. Calvert St. Ste. 655 Baltimore, MD 21218
MedStar Health: Pain Management at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
110 Irving Street NW POB North Ste. 5000 Washington, DC 20010
MedStar Health: Pain Management at Timonium
2118 Greenspring Dr. 1st Floor Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093
Additional information
For patients
Our pain management team is here to guide you, making sure you understand you treatment options every step of the way.New patient packet
For more information or to schedule an appointment call 855-812-9406.
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