Our Philosophy

Centennial is dedicated to serving the patients with acute and chronic pain with medical management and interventional procedures that address their specific needs. Our goal is to help patients manage their pain so that they can quickly return to a more active and productive life.

Our Board Certified and Fellowship Trained Pain Management Physicians believe in achieving this goal by providing comprehensive specialized care in a compassionate setting. Surveys of our patients reveal that our unique conservative approach to pain management, which keeps our patients best interest in mind, has proven to be both cost-effective and results in a high degree of patient satisfaction.

As many of our patients can attest, chronic pain not only takes a major physical toll but also economic, mental, emotional and a spiritual toll. It is necessary to address all of these aspects of pain management to achieve positive long-term results. We address all of these aspects while treating the whole patient and not just the pain symptoms. This is key to positive long-term results for the patient. This comprehensive approach to the treatment of the patient allows us to provide a specially tailored treatment regimen for each patient allowing them to achieve optimal long-term results that improves their quality of life.

We provide our treatment plans by working closely with other Board Certified Physicians and experts in the community who have a special interest in the management of acute and chronic pain. These experts include:

• Neurosurgeons
• Orthopedic Surgeons
• Neurologists
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Physical and Rehabilitation Physicians
• Occupational and Physical Therapists
• Chiropractic Physicians
• Social Workers
• Other Health-Care Providers

Our experienced staff is dedicated to providing timely reports from our paperless internal record keeping system and maintaining open lines of communications via phone, e-mail or fax with our referring partners.

We strongly urge our patients to take an active role in their own treatment. We do not simply tell our patients what to do but encourage them to become actively involved in the medical decision process. We invite their questions and discuss the treatment options with them. This is extremely important as we can not be with our patients during every hour of the day. We strongly believe in sharing our medical knowledge with them so that they develop a full understanding of their medical condition which will help manage their condition on a daily basis.

David R. Lanzkowsky, M.D. click picture for bio	Michael Chen, D.O. click picture for bio
Christopher Curtis, PA-C click picture for bio	Vickie Axsom-Brown, Chief Operating Officer click picture for bio