Mission Statement

Cahaba Pain and Spine Care exists to improve the quality of life and limit the suffering of our patients who are in chronic pain. Pain is a physically, emotionally and socially draining experience. We recognize that chronic pain impedes our patients’ enjoyment of activities, limits their quality of life, may impair their ability to maintain employment or social relationships. We deliver safe, compassionate, timely, and responsible pain relief to our patients through a multi-modal team-based approach emphasizing non-surgical minimally-invasive techniques. Our care is individualized, focused on the patient’s condition and always performed with their input, and delivered by our team of expert Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Assistants and other staff.

Core Values

• Accessibility—We will evaluate each appointment request within a few days of receipt with a goal of scheduling patients within 2 weeks.
• Compassion & Empathy: We know you are in pain and suffering, and we know you have a choice in going to a physician’s office. A doctor’s office does not have to be an unfriendly, indifferent environment. Our clinic will treat you with the same level of care and compassion that we would treat our friends and family. We are proud of the compassionate care delivered in our clinic.
• Cost-efficient care delivery in an office-based setting: This allows us to lower healthcare costs and provide-high-quality, timely service
• Customer Service: We realize patients have a choice, and CPSC will strive to make your care as hassle-free as possible, striving for continuous improvement in our delivery of customer service. We value the trust you have placed in us.
• Excellence in Patient Care – We strive to always give you the best results and the best pain control possible, in the safest manner. We will continuously improve our service, clinical and procedural offerings and adapt to new developments in the medical field. We will use only the most up-to-date medical practices and evidence-based practices available.
• Innovation—We will adopt new techniques when they improve patient care and provide pain control with less risk
• Minimally Invasive—our techniques value quick healing, and minimal tissue disruption.
• Non-surgical management of Pain—We will treat with modalities such as physical therapy, medication, minimally invasive procedures, topicals, devices, tens unit, biofeedback and other non-surgical approaches where possible. When indicated, we will refer for surgery if necessary.
• Professionalism—All of our physicians and providers are Board-Certified or Board Eligible. All of our physicians are double board certified In Anesthesiology and Pain Management. All of our Physicians and Providers are certified by state and federal authorities to provide the interventional and clinical care that you receive.
• Respect—We know you are hurting, and we value the trust you have placed in us. We will do everything we can to help you achieve your pain treatment goals and have the best outcome possible.
• Responsibility/ Accountability: As the Hippocratic oath states, “first, do no harm,” Responsibility to Patients, Staff and the Community
• Timeliness – your time, and our time, is valuable. We will complete your office visit and procedure visit in a timely manner. For office visits, we strive to complete your visit within 1 hour; for new patient visits, within 2 hours; and for procedures, within 90 minutes. Our patients typically experience shorter wait times on their procedure day with us than in a hospital or surgery center.

Our Vision for the Future

• Excellence in Patient care is our first priority
• Attract, retain and grow the best Pain Management experts in our field, including top staff, support staff, Nurses, Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants, who share the attributes of: Kindness, Optimism, Intellectual curiosity, Work Ethic, Empathy, Self-Awareness and Integrity.
• Provide cost-efficient high-quality care with a focus on minimally-invasive and non-invasive techniques
• Adopt new technologies and innovative techniques for use in the outpatient Pain Management setting
• Safe & Responsible Controlled Substance Prescribing, taking into account the needs of the Patient, the risks and benefits of prescribing, and community health as a whole
• Continue to grow the practice into a “one-stop-shop” for pain management, by delivering as many diagnostic, interventional, clinical and treatment options under one roof as possible
• Reducing opioid dependency among our patients and our community, by focusing on non-opioid management, buprenorphine / naloxone, multi-modal management, procedural based care, interventional therapy, topicals, physical therapy, and minimally-invasive non-surgical treatment of chronic pain