Gulf Coast Pain Management
Medical Specialties

Lynne Carr Columbus, D.O. is a board certified anesthesiologist who has a special interest in treating
pain syndromes unresponsive to conventional medical surgical treatments. She practices a comprehensive,
multidisciplinary approach to pain management. Individualized effective treatment modalities are coordinated
with the needs of the patient, the referring physician and case managers.
 

Pain syndromes treated include:

• Back pain, acute and chronic

• Myofascial back and neck pain

• Failed back surgical syndrome

• Spinal stenosis

• Compression fractures

• Scoliosis

• Facet pain

• Whiplash injury

• Headaches

• Neck pain

• Radiculopathy

• Shingles and post-herpetic

• neuralgia

• Peripheral neuropathy

• Diabetic neuropathy

• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• Cancer Pain

• Hyperhidrosis

Treatment Planning:

After proper diagnosis, a plan of treatment is developed for each individual patient.
This plan of treatment may include:

• Medical manipulation of current medications

• Botulinim

• Physical or occupational therapy

• Psychological assessment and therapy

• Neural blockade

• Trigger point therapy

• Epidural injections cervical,
      thoracic, lumbar, or caudal

• Facet injections

• Medial branch blocks

• Sympathetic blocks- stellate, paravertebral, or lumbar

• Intercostal nerve blocks

• Neurolytic blocks

• Radiofrequency Neuroablation

• Nerve Conduction Studies