Center for Pain Management
NEW: Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
We’re proud to share that the Salem Hospital Center for Pain Management now offers basivertebral nerve ablation — an advanced, evidence-based, implant-free outpatient procedure for patients struggling with chronic axial low back pain due to vertebrogenic changes. This minimally invasive treatment targets the basivertebral nerve inside the vertebral body, which transmits pain signals from degenerated vertebral endplates. By selectively ablating this nerve, patients can experience significant and lasting relief when other treatments have failed.
At Salem Hospital, we are deeply committed to bringing our community the most innovative, effective pain management solutions available. Our dedicated team combines leading-edge technology with compassionate, patient-centered care to help our patients regain function and quality of life. We’re honored to continue expanding access to the latest advancements in pain medicine, right here close to home.
Multidisciplinary approach
The Center for Pain Management at Salem Hospital is committed to improving the quality of life for individuals who suffer from chronic pain, through interventional pain procedures and clinical collaborations. We create individual multimodal and multidisciplinary treatment plans for our patients to reduce your pain and improve your functionality.
Our collaborative approach includes mental health, substance use, physical medicine and rehabilitation, wellness alternative therapies and orthopedic and spine surgery. Our pain specialists use leading-edge technology to help patients find the relief they need.
Our Providers
We are staffed by double board certified pain medicine and anesthesiology physicians.
Maximilian E. Hsia-Kiung, MD, is the Medical Director of the Center for Pain Management.
Jennifer Yu, MD is the anesthesiologist for the Center for Pain Management.
Ariana Selby, PA-C, is the certified physician assistant for the Center. Selby received her degree from MCPHS University, Boston, and has a Doctor of Science of Physician Assistant Studies.
Physician referrals only
We collaborate with referring clinicians to provide care and long-term management of pain for North Shore patients. Please ask your provider if the Center for Pain Management is right for you.Conditions treated include but are not limited to:
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Acute and chronic back and neck pain including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, lumbar radiculopathy
- Post back surgery pain syndrome
- Arthritis and joint pain
- Nerve (neuropathic) pain
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), sometimes called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- Headache/facial pain
- Post-surgical pain
- Cancer-related pain
- Abdominal pain
- Coccydynia
- Pudendal neuralgia
- Fibromyalgia
- Shingles pain
- Work related injuries
Diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedural interventions (with or without ultrasound or x-ray guidance, as indicated) provided include, but are not limited to:
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Dorsal root ganglion stimulation
- Multifidus peripheral nerve stimulation
- Epidural steroid injection
- Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
- Facet injection
- Radiofrequency ablation of nerves
- Botox injections
- Joint injections
- Sacroiliac joint injection
- Trigger point injections/dry needling
- Piriformis muscle injections
- Peripheral nerve injections
- Genicular nerve block
- Celiac plexus block
- Superior hypogastric block
- Stellate ganglion block
- Sphenopalatine ganglion block
- Lumbar sympathetic nerve block
- Occipital nerve injection
- Intercostal nerve injection
- Ilioinguinal nerve injection
- Brachial plexus nerve block
- Trigeminal nerve block
- Coccyx injection
- Pudendal nerve block
- Paravertebral injections
- Transverse abdominis plane block
- Abdominal cutaneous nerve block
- Epidural blood patch