MD Pain — Interventional Pain Management in Colorado Springs

Southern Colorado accident patients deserve the same access to coordinated interventional pain management as metro Denver patients. MD Pain in Colorado Springs is CCC's interventional pain management partner for patients at the Colorado Springs clinic. It provides the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that extend conservative care when it reaches its clinical limit, without requiring patients to make the trip north to the Denver metro.

Provider Contact

Website: mdpainco.com Phone: 719-888-7571

What MD Pain Offers

MD Pain provides interventional pain management focused on the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures most relevant to car accident injury presentations:

Diagnostic Pain Evaluation

The foundation of interventional pain management is accurate diagnosis. MD Pain's evaluation process establishes which specific structures are generating pain, not through imaging alone (which cannot identify many common pain sources) but through a combination of clinical history, examination, imaging review, and targeted diagnostic procedures.

For car accident patients, the diagnostic question is often specific: is the pain coming from facet joints damaged in the collision, from disc herniation pressing on a nerve root, from a peripheral joint injured by collision forces, or from some combination of these? The diagnostic answer determines the therapeutic approach.

Facet Joint Blocks

Fluoroscopically guided local anesthetic injection into the specific facet joints suspected as pain sources. The test is straightforward: if blocking the joint eliminates the pain, it is the source. This is the gold standard for identifying the most common spinal pain generators after car accidents.

Facet joints are injured in virtually every rear-end collision. The cervical and lumbar facet joints absorb collision forces directly and can be damaged, producing persistent axial pain even when MRI appears normal. Diagnostic blocks are the only validated method for confirming facet joint as the pain source (ASIPP 2005; Boswell 2003, 2007).

Epidural Steroid Injections

For radicular pain from disc herniation or spinal stenosis, fluoroscopically guided ESI delivers anti-inflammatory corticosteroid to the affected nerve root. When disc herniation with nerve root compression produces persistent radiating pain, numbness, or weakness that conservative care hasn't resolved, ESI addresses the inflammation at its source.

Nerve Blocks

Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks for identifying and treating specific nerve-mediated pain sources. Selective nerve root blocks, medial branch blocks, and peripheral nerve blocks are performed based on the clinical picture and diagnostic findings.

Radiofrequency Ablation

When diagnostic blocks confirm facet joint pain as the primary generator, RF ablation interrupts the pain signal by ablating the medial branch nerves innervating the confirmed painful joints. The procedure provides 6-18 months of relief, is safe and internationally accepted, and is supported by randomized clinical evidence including motor vehicle crash patients (ASIPP 2005).

Trigger Point Injections

Direct injection of myofascial trigger points: areas of sustained muscle contraction and heightened tenderness that develop following collision-induced trauma. Trigger point injections are often used early in the treatment course to interrupt the pain-spasm cycle and allow physical therapy to progress more effectively.

Location

MD Pain 5475 Tech Center Dr., Suite 125, Colorado Springs, CO 80919

When CCC's Colorado Springs Clinic Refers to MD Pain

The decision to refer to interventional pain management follows the same evidence-based protocol at the Colorado Springs clinic as at all CCC locations:

• Conservative care has produced improvement but not resolution: When physical therapy and massage therapy have made functional gains but persistent pain remains that conservative care is managing rather than resolving, interventional evaluation is appropriate.
• Diagnostic precision is needed: When the pain pattern doesn't fully align with imaging findings, or when conservative care plateau suggests an unidentified pain generator, diagnostic procedures identify the source.
• Geographic appropriateness: For Colorado Springs patients, requiring trips to the Denver metro for pain management adds significant burden to an already demanding recovery schedule. MD Pain's Colorado Springs location keeps specialist care local.
• Radicular symptoms need targeted treatment: Nerve root pain that hasn't resolved with physical therapy, particularly shooting pain, numbness, or weakness following a dermatomal pattern, often responds to ESI that addresses the inflammation at the nerve root.

How Results Return to the Colorado Springs Care Team

MD Pain's evaluation findings and procedure notes return to your managing physician at CCC's Colorado Springs clinic after every visit. Your managing physician integrates these results into your overall care plan, adjusting physical therapy protocols, coordinating follow-up procedures, or initiating orthopedic referral if diagnostic findings indicate structural pathology requiring surgical evaluation.

Your CCC managing physician remains the coordinating physician regardless of which specialists are involved. The interventional work doesn't replace your managing physician; it gives your managing physician better diagnostic information and therapeutic options to direct your care.

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