The goal of physical therapy is to help each person maximize their physical function, while minimizing pain, to allow for a fuller and more active lifestyle. Services are tailored to pain-related issues and are generally provided to persons who have not responded completely or who have not responded at all to traditional medical and physical therapy interventions.

The staff in The Nebraska Medical Center’s Pain Management Department work with patients to treat acute or chronic pain including cancer pain and pain associated with headaches, fibromyalgia, spinal arthritis and post-stroke and back pain.

The physical therapists at the Pain Management Program have devoted study, education and clinical practice to provide therapies that are not provided by the typical acute care physical therapist or require the expertise of someone who works exclusively with individuals with pain problems. As such, our physical therapists provide a specialist’s view in the treatment of pain as well as unique therapies and exercise approaches that are not offered by a traditional physical therapist.