Your pain affects more than a number on a chart. It can change how you move, sleep, work, care for your family, and take part in everyday life.
At Canyon Pain Center, care begins with understanding what you are experiencing, what you have already tried, and what you want to be able to do again. Our Phoenix pain management specialists build a plan around your health history, treatment needs, and goals.
Living with persistent pain is exhausting, and harder still when you feel you have to prove it. We ask questions, review your history, and talk openly about your options. You will not be reduced to a diagnosis, a pain score, or a medication list.
Medical care designed to evaluate pain, understand how it affects your life, and build a plan to reduce symptoms and improve function where possible. A plan may include medication management, rehabilitative care, lifestyle guidance, diagnostic review, a targeted procedure, or a referral — the right path depends on your condition, history, previous treatment, and goals.
It is not simply prescribing medication or performing procedures. It is an ongoing process of evaluating what is helping, monitoring safety, and adjusting care as your needs change.
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We evaluate adults with acute, persistent, and chronic pain — back and neck, joints, nerve pain, sciatica, injury and post-surgical pain, and pain tied to chronic conditions.
Pain can have more than one contributing factor. An evaluation is necessary before a diagnosis or treatment recommendation can be made.
View all conditions →Most patients are trying to regain part of their lives — sleeping through the night, walking through a grocery store, sitting long enough to work, driving comfortably, caring for a grandchild, getting back to a hobby. Your provider will ask what meaningful improvement looks like for you, and those goals become how we judge whether the plan is working.
Start with the New-Patient FormNo single treatment is right for everyone. Your plan may include one of these pathways or a combination, based on your evaluation, records, previous response to care, and preferences.
It is reasonable to have questions, especially if you have taken the same medication for a long time, had side effects, or felt judged at previous appointments. Medication decisions here begin with an individual evaluation of your current medications, history, diagnoses, treatment response, functional goals, risks, and options.
We require a referral from a medical provider before establishing a new pain-management patient. Here is the whole path.
Please bring or arrange access to a photo ID, your insurance card if you have coverage, a full list of medications and supplements, your pharmacy, imaging reports and test results, procedure or hospital records related to the pain, contact details for clinicians who treated it, notes on what you have tried, and your most important questions and goals.
Your provider discusses the location and pattern of your pain, its effect on daily function, relevant health conditions, medication history, previous care, and your goals. A focused examination and a review of your records help decide whether further testing, referrals, or treatment should be considered.
That may be a treatment plan, additional records or imaging, a referral, monitoring, or a follow-up visit. Some decisions wait until the provider has complete and accurate information.
| New-Patient Evaluation | Follow-Up Visit | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $260$225THROUGH SEPT 30 | $225 |
| Includes | The scheduled evaluation and recommended next steps based on available clinical information. | The established monthly pain-management follow-up visit. |
| Not included | Procedures, imaging, laboratory work, medications, and outside services. | |
| Insurance | Canyon Pain Center is an out-of-network provider. We bill select PPO insurance plans directly on an out-of-network basis; all other plans are self-pay. Email us to confirm what applies to your plan. | |
Board certified in Pain Management Procedures by the American Academy of Procedural Medicine, with advanced training in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Occupational Medicine. She sets the standard here for how patients are treated.
Board certified family nurse practitioner. Kritika leads day-to-day patient care, from new-patient evaluations through ongoing follow-up, and reviews your chart before your visit.
