Pain Management Doctors in Peoria, AZ

Non-surgical pain care on West Thunderbird Road near the Loop 101, serving Peoria, Sun City, Surprise and the northwest Valley.

An Older Catchment, and What That Changes

This clinic sits in one of the oldest catchments in the Valley, and the pain problems that arrive here are not the same ones a downtown clinic sees.

Spinal stenosis rather than acute disc herniation. Leg pain and heaviness that comes on after a few hundred metres of walking and eases the moment you sit down or lean on a trolley. It gets mistaken for ordinary sciatica and for vascular claudication, and it is managed like neither.

Osteoarthritis of the hip, knee and spine, with the recurring question of whether the joint is generating the pain or the spine is referring into it. Getting that wrong sends people toward joint replacements that were never going to help.

Compression fractures and osteoporotic pain, which need identifying rather than treating as muscular back pain.

Post-surgical pain — a large share of this catchment has already had a spine or joint operation, sometimes several, and needs someone willing to work out what is still wrong rather than assume the surgery settled the question.

Careful About Medication

An older patient on eight other prescriptions is a different problem from a thirty-year-old with a disc.

Interactions matter, kidney and liver function matter, and fall risk matters — a medication that reduces pain and increases the chance of a fracture has not helped. We would rather treat the structure than sedate the person, which is a large part of why interventional and physical options are on the table here at all.

Your Care Team

Maegan Kitzmann, PA-C provides pain management at our Peoria clinic, working with Randall Kertz, DC for chiropractic, supported by our medical directors.

A small clinic, which means the person who examined you is the person managing you.

The First Visit

An examination, not a procedure. History, examination, imaging where the findings justify it — and in a catchment with a lot of prior imaging, a careful look at what has already been done before repeating it.

Old scans are useful and also misleading. Degenerative changes on an MRI are close to universal after sixty and frequently have nothing to do with the pain someone actually has. The examination is what connects an image to a symptom.

Treatment Options

Conservative care first where it is realistic: physical therapy, chiropractic where appropriate, and load and activity guidance that accounts for what you actually want to be able to do again.

Interventional options include epidural steroid injection, medial branch block and radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac joint injection and peripheral joint injection. Each is diagnostic as well as therapeutic — the response identifies the structure responsible, which determines what comes next.

If we do not expect a procedure to help, we will say so.

Insurance, Referrals and Cost

Our Peoria clinic accepts Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Medicare, AHCCCS, Tricare, Optum, workers' compensation and auto/lien cases.

No referral is required to book. Where a plan requires one for coverage rather than access, we identify it when verifying benefits before your first visit. Call (602) 325-2024.

Getting Here

9000 W Thunderbird Rd, #205, Peoria, AZ 85381 — near the Loop 101, parking on site.

Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Serving Peoria, Sun City, Surprise, Glendale and the northwest Valley. For same-day adjustment, see chiropractic care in Peoria. Directions are on the Peoria clinic page.

Peoria Pain Management FAQs

Do you take Medicare? Yes, along with AHCCCS, Tricare and the major commercial plans.

Do I need a referral? No. Some plans require one for coverage rather than for access, which we verify beforehand.

I have already had back surgery. Can you still help? Often, yes. Persistent pain after surgery needs re-diagnosing rather than assuming the operation answered the question.

What if my leg pain only happens when I walk? That pattern usually points to spinal stenosis rather than a disc, and it is managed differently. Worth an examination.

Will I be given an injection at the first appointment? Usually not. The first visit establishes what is being treated.