Pain Management

Pain management is the discipline concerned with treating acute and chronic pain. Acute pain often has a reversible cause and may require only temporary measures, whereas chronic pain often results from conditions that are difficult to diagnose and treat, and may take a long time to reverse. In some chronic pain situations, the pain itself is frequently managed separately from the underlying condition.

Our chronic pain management program is designed for the patient with long-standing pain issues. The goals of the program are to allow the patient to resume a normal lifestyle as soon as possible, minimize narcotic medication usage and coordinate care.

Pain Treatment Options:

• Medication management
• Spinal injections
• Physical therapy
• Ongoing psychological counseling
• Other modalities

Neurosurgery

Our neurosurgical-navigation system is changing the way doctors navigate intra-operative information and technology. Curve™ Image-Guided Surgery is the ultimate command and control center for information-guided surgery. Surgeons optimize navigation with pre-op planning and surgical visualization. Accessible at the touch of a sterile touch pen or non-sterile finger, Curve is bigger, brighter, sharper, and faster. We are the first in Texas to implement the Curve Navigation platform.

By using advanced image-guided navigation technology, we are able to better apply brain mapping techniques on patients. Surgical-Navigation enables surgeons to more accurately target the surgical site down to the smallest degree by providing high-definition screens and precise navigation.

Curve features the latest image guidance software powering advanced 3-D displays and hallmark Brainlab image enrichment. This advanced technology allows ultra-fast image updating when tracking instruments, which promotes intra-operative confidence. The surgical-navigation system is primarily utilized for brain, spine, and sinus procedures.

CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic is an outpatient department of CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center - Longview.