855-WVU-CARE | Center for Integrative Pain Management

Overview
Providers

The WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management strives to treat the whole person, not just the physical symptoms of pain. Our trained providers take the time to figure out the underlying causes of your pain and develop an integrative and individualized plan to target the affected area, to provide relief from pain, and improve your quality of life.

Our integrative approach combines the latest medical treatments with individual and group behavioral therapy, nutritional counseling with a registered dietitian, movement therapy with an exercise physiologist, and natural treatments like acupuncture, massage therapy, and chiropractic care.

The Center for Integrative Pain Management is now offering Nevro HFX™ for painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) performed by pain management specialists Richard Vaglienti, MD. Proven to be the most effective treatment for PDN, it is the only spinal cord stimulation system approved by the FDA with a specific indication for PDN. This minimally invasive procedure allows patients to go home the same day.

The Center for Integrative Pain Management was also the first in the region to implant the Medtronic SynchroMed™ III System, which offers patients experiencing chronic pain, cancer pain, or severe spasticity a new level of relief and personalized treatment.

The Center for Integrative Pain Management now offers the iovera° treatment for patients with knee pain. The iovera° is a nonsurgical, handheld device that does not contain medicine or opioids. The treatment works by using cryoneurolysis, or cold therapy, on the knee.

Conditions We Treat

WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management providers treat all forms of acute and chronic pain, including:

Back pain
Cancer pain
Cervicogenic headache (and other head pain)
Degenerative disc disease
Failed back surgery
Herniated disc
Knee pain
Musculoskeletal pain
Myofascial pain (chronic muscular pain)
Neck pain
Neuropathy (nerve disease causing numbness or weakness), including painful diabetic neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced neuropathy
Osteoarthritis
Peripheral vascular disease
Sacroilitis (inflammation of sacroiliac joint(s)
Shingles
Spinal stenosis
Spinal cord injuries
Tension headache
Trauma
Whiplash headache

Treatments and Services

All patients will go through our intake process (see our new patient information guide), and our team will construct an individualized treatment plan to help you through your pain management journey. Your treatment plan may include a combination of different therapies, including:

Acupuncture
Behavioral medicine
Chiropractic medicine
Fast track spine care
Interventional therapies
Massage therapy
Medical management
Movement therapy
Non-surgical and pre-/post-operative knee pain treatments
Nutritional counseling
Spinal cord stimulation

If your provider determines that you would benefit from pain injections, we offer a variety of traditional injection methods, including but not limited to:

Cryotherapy (freezing of painful nerves to stop pain)
Epidural steroid injections
Nerve blocks
- Celiac plexus (treats pain associated with nerves in abdomen)
- Diagnostic facet (determines if your back pain is caused by facet joints)
- Lumbar sympathetic (treats pain in the lower back)
- Stellate ganglion (affects pain caused by nerves in the neck)
- Therapeutic facet (addresses back pain caused by facet joints)
Rhizotomy (radiofrequency waves and heat destroy problematic nerves)
Trigger point injection
Sacroiliac joint injection
- Minimally invasive spine procedures