Dr. Joel David Ackerman, MD

Pain Management Associates is the Midwest’s largest and most comprehensive, full-time pain management group. We are dedicated to one thing: relieving your pain. Using a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic methods, we’ll look for the unique source of your pain and recommend the quickest, most effective way to treat it. Our ten physicians provide service at two privately owned clinics and multiple hospital based facilities across the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Over the years, we have learned a great deal about how to control pain with medications, surgery, and other treatments. Today, we know more than ever about the causes and mechanisms of pain, and medical research has produced dramatic improvements in the ways we diagnose and treat painful disorders.
Services Offered:
Comprehensive evaluations and examinations
Diagnosis of acute and chronic pain conditions
Trigger point injections
Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks with fluoroscopic guidance
Radiofrequency …nerve ablation
Nucleoplasty (percutaneous disk decompression)
Kyphoplasty
Vertebroplasty
Lumbar Discograms
Intrathecal infusion pump trials and maintenance, including refills and reprogramming
Spinal cord stimulator trials, surgical implant and reprogramming
Medication management with review of medical records
Spinal tap with physician orders

• Belton Regional Medical Center

Kc Pain Centers

100 Ne Saint Lukes Blvd

Lees Summit

MO

64086

USA

+18167631559

• Anesthesiology
• Pain Medicine