Medical pain management in the Seacoast Region
If you are living with chronic pain, we hope to help you find relief.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital offers comprehensive pain management services. We combine the knowledge and expertise of medical providers to deliver compassionate solutions for you.
Expert advice, available 24/7
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Conditions our pain doctors treat
Pain can be caused by a variety of illnesses and injuries. We treat a number of painful conditions, including:
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Degenerative disc disease
- Disc herniation
- Migraines
- Neuropathy
- Occipital neuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phantom limb syndrome
- Post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles)
- Sciatica
- Spinal compression fracture
- Spinal pain (neck and back pain)
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolysis
Treatment for pain-related conditions
Our pain management specialists are committed to using the latest and most effective pain management techniques with a wide range of approaches.
Noninvasive treatments
Typically, noninvasive methods of care involve procedures or tools that do not break the skin or physically enter the body. Our noninvasive treatments include:
- Integrative care — Biofeedback, massage and Reiki
- Myofascial release — A form of deep tissue therapy used to stretch, massage and release pressure in painful muscles and tissue
- Nutrition services —Education and meal planning
- Rehabilitation services —Physical, occupational and warm-water aquatic therapy
- Therapeutic exercise —Yoga, tai chi and Pilates
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) —A therapy that sends a mild, painless electrical current through electrode patches in the treatment area, relieving stiffness, improving mobility and relieving pain
Minimally invasive treatments
Minimally invasive procedures use technology that enables doctors to make smaller incisions than those in traditional open surgery. This can result in less pain and a faster recovery. Such treatments include:
- Epidural steroids
- Kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty
- Minimally invasive lumbar laminectomy
- Nerve and facet blocks (diagnostic and therapeutic)
- Percutaneous disc decompression
- Trigger point with dry needling
Surgical treatments
Our highly skilled surgeons offer a number of procedures for pain management, including:
- Cervical and lumbar fusions
- Cervical and lumbar intrathecal infusion pumps
- Cervical column stimulations
- Decompression laminectomies (lumbar, thoracic, cervical)
- Discectomies
- Nerve entrapment releases, including tarsal tunnel and carpal tunnel
- Spinal cord stimulations