Pecos County Memorial Hospital will give residents more healthcare accessibility beginning next month via a new pain management clinic in Fort Stockton.

“It’s really important for us to be able to offer these pain management services in rural areas,” said Lee Webber, Acute and Chronic Pain Management Specialist. “You don’t have, in most places, the provider available or the space available or maybe the hospital doesn’t know that there is something like that out there. Sometimes, people charge a ridiculous amount of money to come into a rural place like this.”

Webber will be heading up the clinic at PCMH the first Thursday and Friday of each month, beginning April 7 and April 8. The clinic will treat all types of pain including: back, knee, arm/leg/ foot, head and neck, joint and arthritis, headaches and migraines, pinched nerves, herniated discs, sciatica, musculoskeletal, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome.

“Instead of just being treated with narcotics or how they are being treated right now through the primary care clinic, this would be somewhere the primary care physicians, the family physicians and nurse practitioners can refer patients with chronic pain,” Webber explained.

Within the clinic, both medical management including treatment with narcotics and pain medicines and adjunct medicines will be offered.

“The idea [behind adjunct medicines] being to wean down the narcotics or the dangerous medicines and controlled substances as much as possible using some of these other multimodal strategies,” Webber said. “The biggest portion is being able to offer interventional procedures such as different types of injections.”

The services that will be offered are listed below.

• Long-term care and follow-up

• Medication regimens

• Treatment for chronic headaches

• Trigger point injections

• Epidural steroid injections (thoracic and lumbar)

• Nerve root blocks

• Peripheral nerve root blocks

• Radio frequency neuromodulation (chronic back and knee pain, arthritic joints)

• Joint injections

• Facet blocks

“These patients that are having chronic pain a lot of times can’t drive in a car for two hours,” Webber said. “It’s just too painful.”

To set up an appointment for April 7 or April 8, please call 432-336-0700 option 0.