Minnesota hospital adds pain clinic

Staples, Minn.-based Lakewood Health System opened a pain clinic to provide treatment for chronic back, neck, shoulder, knee, hip, head and muscle pain, the Brainerd Dispatch reported Feb. 21.

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The clinic is on Lakewood’s main campus, and if surgical care is needed, a pain specialist will perform the procedure in the hospital.

The clinic specializes in creating personalized treatment plans for pain management, and surgeons will provide image-guided spinal and joint injections, trigger point injections and radiofrequency ablations.

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