"I appreciate a challenge in my work, and I enjoy helping patients through their health journey."
Kelly, a board-certified adult nurse practitioner, has experience to treat spinal arthritis in the low back, neck and thoracic regions.
She can help patients with pain due to stenosis, radiculopathy and other nerve pain and neuropathies such as phantom leg pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Kelly has years of experience managing Spinal Cord Stimulators and is able to provide in office injection therapy for some headache conditions.
“Helping patients decrease chronic pain, that can often be a many year cycle, is challenging," Kelly said. “I guide our discussion with kindness and compassion."
Frequently, patients are uncertain of how therapies in the Chronic Pain Clinic will be helpful over their prior treatments. When patients meet with Kelly, they review previous treatments and discuss additional multi-modal treatment options, since more than one treatment at a time is often necessary.
Kelly strives to be a kind, empathetic listener and provide a patient-centered approach to care. She works with patients to educate and focus on the whole body in their long-term treatment plan.
“We discuss the complexity of the pain syndrome, and its relationship to sleep and mood," Kelly said. She works with her patients to plan a treatment approach that may include injections, medication, exercise and diet modifications.
When patients are suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions, this approach pairs self-management and help from multiple treatments to improve the patient's quality of life.
The Chronic Pain Clinic offers multiple treatment types, or a multi-modal approach. Patient care teams can include providers from multiple areas, which offers high-quality care to address complex pain needs. Kelly has many years of experience treating patients experiencing difficult to manage pain. “I'm proud to help patients as a part of this team, which has been providing the highest quality treatments available for decades," she said.
Kelly earned her Bachelor of Nursing and Master of Nursing degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
When able, Kelly travels to appreciate nature in the National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges. Locally, her passions include preservation of native plants and animals and bird watching. She enjoys snowshoeing and weaving in the winter.