Low Back Pain
Everyone has experienced low back pain at one time or another. Most people can recover from low back pain with home treatment, such as changes in activity, weight loss, quitting smoking, and other steps. Sometimes medicine or surgery is needed.
Featured Treatments
Acute Pain Services
The Acute Pain Services at the Pain Management Center deliver comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for individuals with postoperative or post-traumatic pain, and treat conditions such as arthritis, back pain and joint pain.
Back Pain Treatments
We offer many minimally invasive, image-guided therapies for chronic low back and leg pain, herniated discs, tarlov cysts and fractures. Learn more about the treatment options below.
Comprehensive Spine Services and Interventions
The Pain Management Center at Massachusetts General Hospital delivers comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for individuals with painful spine disorders and acute or chronic neck and low back pain.
Image-Guided Botox
Mass General offers image-guided Botox injection, a minimally invasive procedure where we inject Botox medicine into a muscle to relieve spasms that may be causing you pain. Learn more about this musculoskeletal radiology service.
Muscle and Joint Pain Treatments
We offer minimally invasive, image-guided treatments for many types of muscle pain and joint pain.
Orthopaedic Spine Service
Our multi-disciplinary spine team uses non-operative therapies and advanced surgical techniques to treat all spine conditions and disorders. We want to get you back to doing the things you love.
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