Eastern Carolina Pain Consultants is a division of East Carolina Anesthesia Associates and provides services at the Pain Management Center for all aspects of acute and chronic pain management in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. In addition, the Pain Center participates in the joint care of patients with East Carolina University’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Our physicians have advanced training, board certification, and extensive clincial experience in pain medicine. Our goal is to providing unsurpassed quality of care for acute and chronic pain services in eastern North Carolina.

Our interventional pain clinic provides all aspects of medical, interventional, behavioral and alternative techniques to manage pain. These techniques include:

Medical management

Opioids
Antidepressants
Anticonvulsants
Antiarrythmics
NMDA antagonists
Calcium channel blockers
Topical medications

Radiographically Guided spinal injections

Epidural block
Translaminar (conventional)
Transforaminal
Selective nerve root block
Facet block
Intra-articular
Medial branch
Sacroiliac joint block
Discography

Other radiographically guided injections

Celiac plexus block
Hypogastric plexus block
Stellate ganglion block
Lumbar sympathetic block
Ganglion impar block
Peripheral nerve blocks
Neuraxial blocks

Other injections

Trigger point injection
Subcutaneous infiltration

Intravenous infusions

Sodium channel blockers
Alpha blockers
Intravenous regional sympathetic block

Neuromodulation

Spinal cord stimulation
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Implantable technologies
(in cooperation with a specialized surgical team)

Spinal cord stimulation
Intrathecal drug delivery system

Lynn R. Johnson, MD
Medical Director

Raymond B. Minard, MD

Melany Furimsky, DO

Jo Anne Eure, RN,
MSN, ANP, FAAPM

Radiographically guided cervical spine nerve root block.