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