The World's Most Pioneering Pain Practice · A Category of One

Where Pain ends. Life begins again.

Advanced, whole-person pain care — interventional, regenerative, and opioid-free — led by one of the most pioneering physicians in the field.

Right Early. Right Often.
GENEVA · 1999

First U.S. pain physician to work with the World Health Organization’s Department of Substance Abuse

LATE 1990s

Warned of the OxyContin epidemic more than a decade before the CDC

TECHNIQUE

Developer of pioneering, world-first interventional pain procedures

KETAMINE

America’s first & longest-running surgery-center-based ketamine program

BOARD CERTIFIED
ANESTHESIOLOGY-TRAINED
ACCREDITED FELLOWSHIP
OPIOID-FREE
INDEPENDENT
Our Philosophy

We treat the whole person — and the root of the problem.

National Pain Centers is an interventional pain practice, and so much more: multi-disciplinary, multi-modal, and built on a simple conviction — find the true cause, treat it, and rehabilitate it, rather than mask it.

Knowledge

We draw on the whole timeline of medicine — from healing traditions thousands of years old to today’s most advanced science — and the vision to build what’s next.

Skill

Precision you can feel: physician-performed procedures, low-dose imaging, non-opioid sedation, and tissue-sparing technique. We reserve the aggressive, irreversible options as a true last resort.

Integrity

Opioid-free by conviction and independent by design — accountable to one thing, your outcome, not to a corporate owner’s quotas.

A Category of One

Not a bigger version of the practice down the street. A different one.

Anyone can call themselves a pain specialist. Almost no one can back it up all the way down. Each standard below narrows the field — together, they leave one.

01

Board Certified — a floor not every provider clears.

02

Anesthesiology-Trained — the root of neuraxial precision, safety, and sedation.

03

Accredited Fellowship Trained — not a weekend certificate.

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A Published Innovator — world-first techniques and a landmark theory.

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Opioid-Free by Conviction — he predicted the epidemic before it began.

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Independent — accountable to you, not a corporation.

Filter the field through every standard, and you arrive at a category of one.

Nearly four out of five U.S. physicians now answer to a hospital, insurer, or private-equity owner. Only about one in five remains independent. Dr. Joshi is one of them.

Signature

A blood test for how you move.

Our Virtual MSK Movement Assessment is the first fully remote, wearable-free musculoskeletal exam of its kind — turning how your body actually moves into objective data, giving you a baseline, and tracking real improvement over time.

Learn about the assessment
Our Team

Multi-disciplinary. Multi-modal. Handpicked.

You’ll see our team even more than you’ll see Dr. Joshi — so we chose every one of them to the same standard. Together, they bring more than 100 years of combined experience across many fields of medicine.

Dr. Jay Joshi, MD
Founder & Medical Director

Board-certified, anesthesiology-trained, accredited-fellowship-trained — and one of the only interventional pain physicians to have studied Ayurvedic medicine, drawing on its whole-person philosophy. He built this practice, and hand-selected this team, around a single idea: category-of-one care, obsessively pursued, at every level.

Interventional Pain
Anesthesiology
Chiropractic & MSK
Physical Therapy & Rehab
Internal & Obesity Medicine
Surgical & Oncology-Informed Care
Regenerative Medicine
Ketamine & Non-Opioid Modalities
Nutrition
Behavioral & Whole-Person Care

Reflects the combined training and professional experience of our team, not a list of services offered.

What we do

Comprehensive, multi-modal care

From advanced interventional procedures to whole-person optimization — and a membership for those who want the highest level of access.

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Interventional Pain Management

Image-guided precision procedures including epidurals, nerve blocks, RFA, spinal cord stimulation, and advanced diagnostics.

02

Virtual MSK

Objective AI-powered musculoskeletal assessment for movement, impairment, function, and defensible reporting.

03

Regenerative Medicine

PRP, stem cell therapy, exosomes, growth factors, and biologics designed to stimulate natural healing.

04

Sports Medicine

Advanced non-surgical musculoskeletal care for sports injuries, performance recovery, and return-to-play planning.

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Lifestyle Medicine

Evidence-based nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and metabolic support to strengthen every pain care plan.

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Personal Injury

Diagnosis, treatment, and documentation for injury cases requiring clinical precision and legal defensibility.

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Workers Compensation

Coordinated care for injured workers focused on diagnosis, treatment, documentation, and return-to-work clarity.

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Car Accident Injuries

Comprehensive evaluation and treatment for whiplash, spine trauma, soft tissue injury, and post-accident pain.

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The Sovereign Program

Membership built around access, precision, and outcomes — care from a category of one.

KIC Pain
Thousands
of infusions delivered, and counting

America’s first — and longest-running — surgery-center ketamine program.

Built two decades ago when almost no outpatient programs existed, and none were surgery-center-based. Non-opioid infusions for CRPS, fibromyalgia, central sensitization, PTSD, anxiety, and depression — delivered with surgical-grade safety.

Membership

The Sovereign Program

For those who want the highest level of access, precision, and accountability — the category-of-one standard, built into a membership. Signature diagnostics, member pricing, non-opioid procedural care, and, at the top tier, direct concierge access to Dr. Joshi.

Precision — the essential membership

Pinnacle — the complete program

Sovereign — direct access to Dr. Joshi

Where to Find Us

Locations.

In-person care across the Chicago area, plus nationwide telemedicine.

Vernon Hills

📍 230 Center Dr., Vernon Hills, IL 60061
🏥 Vernon Square Surgicenter — Procedure Location

Des Plaines

📍 999 E. Touhy, Ste 450, Des Plaines, IL 60018
🏥 Procedure Suite: 999 E. Touhy, Ste 350

Telemedicine

💻 Telemedicine visits for current patients
🌐 World’s first fully virtual pain practice
Appointments & Contact

Get clarity on your condition.

Talk with our team about the right path forward — from a single consultation to full membership.

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