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Pain Management

There are as many levels and thresholds of pain as there are people. St. Anthony's Center for Interventional Pain Management provides a multi-disciplinary program that offers a full range of comprehensive pain management treatments in an outpatient setting.

We Are Right By Your Side

At HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Dr. Frank M. Eaton and our team at St. Anthony's Center for Interventional Pain Management are experts in helping adults and children with a wide range of painful disorders. They listen to patients’ concerns and develop individualized treatment plans to make sure they get the right therapy when they need it.

Why Live with Pain?

Pain can be a nuisance or it can control your life. No matter what level of pain you are experiencing, we are committed to the complete non-surgical and minimally invasive management of pain syndromes. Our goal is to decrease your pain as well as to increase your daily activities and enhance the quality of your life. We will provide an evaluation, diagnosis and treatment plan in which you, as the patient, are an active participant.

Our Philosophy and Approach

We commit to:

Devoting necessary time to listen to our patients.
Providing a caring approach to the management of each patient's pain.
Developing a personalized treatment plan for each patient based on their unique pain disease and their goals for their treatment.
Educating each patient about their condition, treatment, options and progress.
Ensuring all procedures are performed with the patient’s comfort and safety being the top priority.
Supporting referring health care providers in the care of their patients.
Working closely with primary care physicians as well as many specialists to optimally coordinate the care of our patients.

Conditions we treat:

Back and neck pain
Degenerative disc disease
Arthritis
Herniated discs
Shingles (post-herpetic neuralgia)
Sports injury pain
Work injury pain
Headache – botox for migraines
Knee pain/osteoarthritis and pain after replacement
Lumbar radiculopathy
Sciatica
Whiplash (CAD syndrome)
Muscle pain and muscle spasm
Nerve (neuropathic) pain
Joint osteoarthritis (hips, knee, carpal metacarpal joint, etc.)

Treatment Plans Designed for YOU

At St. Anthony’s Center for Interventional Pain, we feel pain and suffering can be dramatically reduced by providing the right diagnostic insights, comprehensive medical strategies and new advanced treatments.

All our patients first undergo a thorough assessment to determine the issues contributing to their pain symptoms. We then develop an individualized treatment plan targeted to their specific problem. We use the most advanced technologies and work to strengthen our patients’ emotional ability to cope with the debilitating effects of pain to help them quickly return to a fully productive life.

A variety of injections are offered to treat pain, including:

Knee, hip, shoulder and other joint injections
Botox for chronic migraine
Neck and back injections

Getting a referral

To see our pain management experts, ask your primary care doctor or specialist to call us at 217-347-6702 or send us a referral by fax at 217-347-6118.

Getting Her Life Back

“After working jobs that required lots of heavy lifting for over 15 years, I was left with a lot of back pain. Everything I tried only worked temporarily. At my first appointment at HSHS St. Anthony’s pain clinic, Dr. Eaton and the nurse asked very detailed questions about my pain and issue. Dr. Eaton reviewed my MRI, pinpointed the issue, and recommended treatment. After getting successful nerve blocks followed by radiofrequency ablation treatments with Dr. Eaton, I am now almost totally pain-free.

“I did not realize exactly how much the pain had impacted my day-to-day life. In the time since the first ablation, I have regained a lot of mobility. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to Dr. Eaton and his team for giving me back my life.”

– Jill Alwardt