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A Chronic Pain Doctor Near You
Serving Okemos & Lansing, MI
Persistent pain is exhausting, and you deserve a clinician who actually has time to look at the whole picture — not just the spot that hurts.
Schedule an AppointmentTools Dr. Eng May Use
These are the four non-surgical chronic pain Okemos patients most often see Dr. Eng combine in a plan. None of them is a stand-alone fix, and the choice of which to use — and in what sequence — is hers to make based on what your history and your tissue suggest.
GAINSWave Shockwave Therapy
Acoustic-electric energy applied at the tissue level. May help support healing in stubborn tendon, joint, and connective-tissue pain when other options have stalled.
Frequency Specific Microcurrent
Frequency-calibrated low-level currents — typically the most subtle of the pain tools, used when nerve or tissue-level concerns are part of the picture.
AltPoint Percutaneous Needle Electrolysis
For the subset of chronic pain rooted in a specific damaged tendon, ligament, or scar-tissue structure — ultrasound-guided needle electrolysis as a focal, precision input rather than a general pain modality.
BEMER PEMF Therapy
Pulsed-field sessions on a clinical mat — quiet to lie under, designed to support microcirculation as a baseline input beneath an active pain plan.
Normatec Compression Therapy
Sequential air compression on the legs, hips, or arms. May help support circulation and ease post-exertion soreness in patients whose pain is movement-aggravated.
These four sit inside our broader non-invasive pain management category — the full set of pain-focused tools is on the hub page.
Understanding Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is the pain that does not resolve when it should. It outlasts the original injury, the expected healing window, or any clean explanation — and patients living with it know the second category of cost: the tiredness of explaining it, the slow narrowing of what feels worth doing, the way good days and bad days stop tracking with anything obvious. Patients whose pain sits at a specific named joint — knee, shoulder, hip, or elbow — may find the joint pain page a closer fit; the work here is for the broader, less-localized chronic-pain picture.
There is nothing imagined about this. Persistent pain changes how the nervous system files signals, how soft tissue moves and heals, and how energy gets allocated across a day. None of that is moral failing or weakness — it is biology that has been carrying a load. Care that takes the whole picture seriously starts from there.
A Different Approach
Dr. Janet Eng is a board-certified emergency physician with thirty-plus years of clinical experience, fellowship-trained in medical toxicology, with continued training through the University of South Florida Morsani Personalized Medicine Course, A4M, AMMG, IFM, Frequency Specific Microcurrent, and My Injection Training, and currently participating in the AMSKU Ultrasound Fellowship. Her chronic pain work is rooted in two convictions: that the upstream drivers — inflammation, soft-tissue pattern, sleep, nervous-system tone, prior injury history — matter, and that non-surgical options are worth a serious look before invasive ones. Chronic pain treatment Lansing MI patients can access here is whole-person and individualized — designed to complement, not replace, the broader care you have in place with your other providers.
What to Expect
The first visit is a full-length functional medicine consultation — unhurried time where Dr. Eng reads through your history, any imaging you have, the medications and therapies already tried, and what your day-to-day actually looks like. The plan that comes out of that visit is built for you, not a template: which tools to use, in what order, how often, and for how long. Patients seeking chronic pain relief in Michigan from a complementary, non-surgical setting often find that the assessment alone shifts how the problem looks.
Questions About Chronic Pain Care
No. Dr. Eng works alongside the rest of your care team — your primary physician, specialists, pain physician, or surgeon, depending on who is involved. The care here is complementary; medications you are managing with another provider continue to be managed there. When a surgical or imaging-driven evaluation is the right next step, Dr. Eng will tell you so directly.
Patients arrive with a wide mix — long-running tendon issues, joint pain that has stuck around, leftover symptoms after an injury or operation, nerve-driven discomfort, and pain that did not respond to the standard course of physical therapy or medication. Dr. Eng will be honest at intake about whether the tools she has are a fit for your specific picture.
Most of the therapies in this category are not currently reimbursed by insurance plans in Michigan. Call 517-719-0730 for current self-pay rates and any package options. The consultation visit is where Dr. Eng will lay out what a realistic course of care would look like and what it would cost.
Honest answer: it varies, and the people who respond well almost always do so over a course of sessions rather than after a single visit. Many patients report incremental changes over the first few weeks; others need longer. Dr. Eng tracks the response and adjusts the plan if a tool is not earning its place.
Adults with chronic pain that has not fully responded to conventional channels, patients who would prefer to exhaust non-surgical options before considering more invasive ones, and anyone wanting a physician with time for the upstream piece of the picture. The practice serves Okemos, East Lansing, Lansing, and the wider Mid-Michigan area.
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Your Next Step?
Book a consultation with Dr. Eng to discuss whether functional and regenerative medicine may fit alongside your existing care.