Outpatient Clinic & Surgical Services

Pain Clinic

Dana L. Simon, MD, DABPM

Specialty: Pain Management - the process of providing medical care that alleviates or reduces pain caused from a variety of difference sources.

Certified by: American Board of Anesthesiologist

Joined Story Medical team in: 2010

Affiliated with: Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines, Center for Pain Medicine, Des Moines, Iowa

Education & Accomplishments: Dr. Simon graduated from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1977. His residency was completed at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital and University of Virginia Health Systems.

Common Questions about Pain Medicine

Whether a patient suffers from temporary pain due to illness, injury, chronic cancer-related pain or end-of-life pain, Dr. Simon is available to help Story County residents in a location close to their home.

Those in pain sometimes find it difficult to focus on anything else in life. Dr. Simon is committed to pain management as a priority in maintaining basic human dignity. He is dedicated to helping deal with any type of pain a patient might have and achieving the greatest level of activity in their life.

For more information on making an appointment with Dr. Simon, patients should call the Story Medical Outpatient Clinic & Surgical Services Department at 515-382-7738.

Common Procedures Done at Story Medical:

  • Peripheral nerve blocks
  • Neurolytic blocks
  • Percutaneous caudal decompression
  • Facet blocks
  • Transforminal nerve blocks
  • Selective nerve blocks
  • Trigger point epidurals
  • Caudal epidurals
  • Thoracic epidurals
  • Lumbosacral epidurals
  • Cervical epidurals
  • Facet joint injections