St. Luke’s Pain Management Associates

The St. Luke’s Pain Management Associates at St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital provide specialized care to reduce patients' pain and to improve their quality of life. The physicians offer the latest medical and surgical treatments. The office is staffed by a board-certified physician, specially trained physician assistants and nurses who are educated to treat a wide variety of conditions that interfere with an individual's quality of life.

Patients are seen by St. Luke's Pain Management Associates only with a physician referral.

Common Treatments

St. Luke's Pain Management Associates treat pain caused by work injuries, spinal cord problems, cancer and other chronic diseases. Patients need to be referred by a physician.

The most common problems for which patients are referred to the St. Luke's Pain Management Associates include:

  • Low back pain
  • Sciatica
  • Herniated disks
  • Neck, shoulder and arm pain
  • Nerve pain
  • Compression fractures
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Work-related injuries
  • Neuropathy
  • Chronic muscle pain
  • Cancer-related pain
  • Shingles pain
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Evaluation and Physical Examination

The first step of care is a thorough medical evaluation. A St. Luke 's Pain Management Associates physician and physician assistant will spend time talking to the patient about symptoms and limitations and then will perform a physical examination. Additional testing may be required to help diagnose the problem. A plan of action is then made and discussed with the patient.

Your treatment plan is individualized to meet your specific needs. Some of the treatments listed below may be offered depending on the nature of your pain.

  • Medication management
  • Epidural steroid injection
  • Surgically implanted pain pumps
  • Spinal cord stimulation
  • Selective nerve root injection
  • X-ray-guided joint injection
  • Behavioral counseling
  • Rehabilitation programs
  • Non-surgical removal of herniated disk
  • Trigger point injections

About our Doctor

Scott Loev, MD

  • Earned undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania 's College of Arts and Sciences in Philadelphia, PA
  • Awarded medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, PA
  • Completed internal medicine internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Stratford, NJ
  • Completed anesthesiology residency at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA
  • Served as Interventional Pain Medicine Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, PA
  • Awarded the 2005 Pfizer Scholar in Pain Management