Joint Pain

Joint Pain services offered in St. George, UT

Joint pain can be disabling, keeping you from being active. Whether your joint pain is acute or chronic, it can impact your quality of life. Our interventional pain medicine physician Dr. Stacie Oliver at Alturas Pain Spine Specialists in St. George, UT can help.

How Joint Pain Affects You

Joint pain can cause you to become sedentary, which can lead to weight gain and other medical conditions. The lack of mobility caused by stiff, painful joints can also affect your mental health.

What Causes Joint Pain

Joint pain can be caused by several factors. Some of the most common causes of joint pain include:

• Aging
• Osteoarthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Bursitis
• A sports injury
• A vehicular accident
• Overuse at work

How Our Pain Medicine Physician Can Help With Joint Pain

Dr. Oliver will begin with a thorough physical examination which may include lab testing to detect underlying medical conditions, and imaging studies to assess joint damage. After a careful diagnosis of the cause of your joint pain, our doctor will develop a customized treatment plan, the goals of which are to:

• Reduce or eliminate pain
• Restore joint function
• Improve mobility and flexibility
• Improve your quality of life

How Our Doctor Can Treat Joint Pain

At Alturas Pain & Spine Specialists, our doctor may recommend these effective treatments for joint pain:

• Physical therapy to help you regain your full range of motion in your joints, and improve strength, flexibility, and mobility
• Anti-inflammatory medications to decrease joint inflammation, and swelling of surrounding tissues, and provide pain relief
• Steroid injections into joints, tendons, and bursa using ultrasound or fluoroscopic guidance can effectively decrease pain and help restore function.
• Tendon fenestration and barbotage (breaking up calcium build up in tendons) using ultrasound guidance can relieve pain associated with chronic tendonitis.
  

Want To Know More?

To find out more about the prevention, causes, and treatment of joint pain, talk with an expert. Call Dr. Stacie Oliver at Alturas Pain & Spine Specialists in St. George, UT. You can reach her in the office by calling (435) 222-5527, so call today.