Chronic Back Pain Program

Chronic Back Pain Program in Overland Park and Kansas City

If your back has hurt for more than three months, you have probably already tried rest, heat and over-the-counter pills without lasting relief. Core Medical Center runs a physician-led chronic back pain program in Overland Park, KS, that pairs a real diagnosis with coordinated, non-surgical care for patients across Johnson County and the Kansas side of the metro. Our clinic sits near Oak Park Mall, a short drive from Overland Park Regional Medical Center and AdventHealth Shawnee Mission.

In short: this program finds out what is actually driving your back pain, then treats it with hands-on care, therapy and targeted procedures under one coordinated plan, so spine surgery and long-term medication stay a last resort rather than the first move.

Why Chronic Back Pain Needs a Real Plan

Pain that lingers past three months almost never comes from a single cause. It can be a degenerated disc, a compressed nerve root, deconditioned core muscles, an old injury that never fully healed, or some combination of all of these. Guessing at it leads to repeat flare-ups. Diagnosing it leads to a plan.

Our Overland Park program is built to do the second:

• A focused physician evaluation and a review of any imaging you bring
• A working diagnosis explained in language you can follow
• A staged treatment plan with defined milestones, not endless open visits
• Scheduled re-checks that adjust the plan as your pain and movement change

Who the Program Is Built For

This program fits Kansas City patients whose back pain has not settled on its own and who want to exhaust conservative options before sitting down with a surgeon. It is a strong match if you live with:

• Persistent low back pain that gets in the way of work or daily life
• A confirmed or suspected herniated disc
• Leg pain or sciatica traveling alongside your back pain
• Repeated episodes of back pain that keep returning

When the dominant complaint is sharp pain shooting down one leg, our Overland Park sciatica pain treatment page walks through that pattern in detail.

How the Treatment Comes Together

The strength of the program is that it is integrated. Your medical evaluation, your rehab and your procedure options all live under one roof and one plan here in Overland Park, so nobody is starting your story over. Based on your diagnosis, your provider may combine:

• Hands-on and rehabilitative care to restore motion and rebuild the muscles that stabilize your spine
• Targeted injection procedures such as trigger-point, epidural or nerve-block options when imaging and symptoms point to one pain generator
• Regenerative medicine, including PRP and prolotherapy, where it fits disc and joint-related pain
• Ongoing pain management aimed at reducing dependence on long-term opioid medication

On the medical side, injection decisions are overseen by Dr. Paul Doskey, our board-certified anesthesiologist focused on pain management, so procedures are directed by a physician rather than left to guesswork.

Conditions We Treat Within the Program

Day to day, the program addresses chronic and recurring low back pain, herniated disc, and back pain that radiates into the hip or down the leg as sciatica. Your provider ties your specific diagnosis to the right mix of conservative care, therapy and, when it is warranted, procedural treatment, then re-evaluates as you progress. That bidirectional link between condition and treatment is what keeps the plan honest.

Why Overland Park Patients Choose Core Medical Center

We are a physician-led, integrated pain control clinic, and for chronic back pain that structure matters, because the answer is usually a combination of treatments rather than one fix. Instead of bouncing you between separate offices across Johnson County, we coordinate evaluation, therapy and procedures on a single team. As a chiropractor-anchored clinic with on-site medical and rehab care, we can adjust your plan as your back responds instead of restarting from zero. For patients whose pain traces back to an on-the-job injury, we also document care to fit a Kansas workers’ compensation file.

What Your First Visit Looks Like

The first appointment is an evaluation, not a sales pitch. We go through your history and any imaging, examine how your spine moves and where it hurts, and explain in plain terms what we believe is driving the pain. You leave with a staged plan and realistic goals.

Same-week appointments are typically available at our Overland Park clinic, and booking takes only a couple of minutes. If you are ready to stop carrying chronic back pain on your own, schedule a visit and let’s build a plan that fits your spine and your life in Kansas City.