Welcome to U-MED Pain Management Clinic. We are located off Lake Otis in the heart of Anchorage’s medical district. Dr. John Shannon, Advanced Chiropractic Physician, founded the clinic with the idea of offering Alaskans a new approach to dealing with some of the more common and often painful injuries. He is one of the few doctors in the state that specialize in prolotherapy.
Learn more about this innovative treatment.
Your first consultation is complimentary. Call us today. (907) 561-1323
Dr. Shannon has spent more than two decades in Alaska. He is an avid golfer and runner. Enjoying Alaska’s great outdoors with his wife and daughters is where you will find him most weekends.
Dr. Shannon is dedicated to offering his patients solutions in pain management. He prides himself in keeping up with the latest innovations, techniques and procedures in pain management and prolotherapy procedures.
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Condition: Patients we see in our office are typically patients who have had low-grade chronic back pain for extended periods of time; a year or longer typically. They have these symptoms even after trying one or several different treatments which may or may not include......
Condition: Chronic headaches and neck pain can have several causes. Patients who have persistent headaches, especially tension-type headaches have typically one of three things going on. Trigger points in the trapezius muscle which causes contraction of that muscle which then attaches to the base of......
Condition: Chronic shoulder pain is a rather common condition. It can be a rotator cuff tear, arthritis or a labral tear, which is the cartilage inside the shoulder itself. We treat these conditions as well. However, in some instances, what occurs do to either overuse......
Condition: Chronic knee pain is almost as common as low back pain in our office. Even after multiple treatments, of other injections, physical therapy, rehabilitation, and even surgery, including knee replacement, patients still have persistent pain in the knees. Cause: Typically, the cause of chronic......
Condition: Chronic hip pain can be sometimes very difficult to diagnose. There are multiple causes. The first and obvious one is degeneration or arthritis of the hip joint. In our office we use prolotherapy for the treatment of degenerative hips. Absent degeneration or arthritis of......
