Meet Our Pain Management Doctors in South Jordan and Draper, UT
Salt Lake County's Top-rated Pain Management Specialists
Written by Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD and Dr. Steven Chalk, DC · Freedom Integrated Medicine, South Jordan, UT · Last updated October 2026
The pain management doctors at Freedom Integrated Medicine in South Jordan, Utah, are Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD, Dr. Steven Chalk, DC, and Dr. Dustin Creer, DC, MS Sports Medicine. Freedom Integrated Medicine is the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County, with more than 300 five-star Google reviews from patients in South Jordan, Draper, Riverton, Herriman, and across the southwest valley. Our doctors treat chronic knee, back, hip, and shoulder pain, sciatica, neuropathy, arthritis, and car accident injuries by finding the tissue behind the pain and treating it with stem cell and PRP injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy, without surgery or prescription pain medication. All three are licensed Utah doctors, and Dr. Alec and Dr. Chalk examine and explain care in English and Spanish. New patients start with the $49 New Patient Special, a one-on-one consultation, full exam, and X-rays at 4775 W. Daybreak Parkway in South Jordan.
Our Pain Management Specialists in South Jordan
Dr. Alec Laracuente is a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor and the lead regenerative medicine physician at Freedom Integrated Medicine. He earned a PhD in Integrative Medicine and a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the University of Turabo in Puerto Rico, then completed a Family Practice and Pain Management Residency at the Institute of Pain Care of the Caribbean, where he spent years watching patients cycle through medications that dulled the pain without ever repairing what was sending it.
He went on to become the first NMD to establish a practice inside a major Puerto Rico hospital, focusing on chronic disease, musculoskeletal pain, and regenerative medicine. After Hurricane Maria, the Department of Homeland Security recruited him to support the island’s recovery over a three-year period.
Today Dr. Alec leads our regenerative medicine program for spinal conditions, knee pain, and neuropathy, and he personally oversees our stem cell therapy and PRP injection care. His pain management residency is why patients trust him to say plainly when an injection is the right tool and when it is not. Patients describe him as energetic and easy to talk to, and he explains your findings in English or Spanish, in words you can repeat to your spouse at dinner.
Dr. Steven Chalk is the founder and COO of Freedom Integrated Medicine and a licensed chiropractic physician. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science from BYU and a Doctorate in Chiropractic from Parker University in Dallas, Texas, and he learned fluent Spanish during a two-year mission in Mexico.
His path into pain management began with his own pain. In his twenties he suffered a bulged disc and was told to simply live with it, and he founded this clinic so that people in South Jordan and Draper would get a better answer than he was given.
He has performed more than 75,000 adjustments and is the author of “The Future of Healing,” a book on neuropathy and degenerative knee conditions. Dr. Chalk focuses on degenerative knees, peripheral neuropathy, sciatica, and bulged or herniated discs, and his exercise science background is why he starts with the alignment, joint loading, and movement habits that keep a disc or a knee irritated, then corrects those alongside whatever regenerative care the tissue needs.
Dr. Dustin Creer earned his Doctorate of Chiropractic and a Master’s in Sports Medicine from the University of Western States in Portland, Oregon, in 2014, after completing a degree in Sports and Exercise Science at Utah Valley University. He has performed well over 100,000 adjustments and has treated athletes at every level, from youth competitors to professional and Olympic athletes.
That background gave him a detailed understanding of how the spine, joints, and soft tissue work together under load, and it is the same understanding he brings to a 70-year-old whose knee gives out on the stairs. He favors gentle techniques tailored to each person, and patients who feel nervous about being adjusted find it reassuring that he explains what he is doing and why before he does it.
Our Pain Management Doctors at a Glance
If you are comparing pain management doctors in South Jordan and Draper, this is the side-by-side we would want to see if we were in your chair. Every license number below is public, and you can check each one on the State of Utah’s professional license lookup in under a minute.
Dr. Alec Laracuente, NMD, PhD
Dr. Steven Chalk, DC
Dr. Dustin Creer, DC, MS
Role at our clinic
Chief Attending Physician & Regenerative Medicine Practitioner
Founder & COO, Chiropractic Physician
Chiropractic Physician & Sports Medicine
Doctoral training
Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and PhD in Integrative Medicine, University of Turabo
Doctorate in Chiropractic, Parker University
Doctorate of Chiropractic and MS in Sports Medicine, University of Western States
Additional training
Family Practice and Pain Management Residency, Institute of Pain Care of the Caribbean
BS in Exercise Science, BYU
BS in Sports and Exercise Science, Utah Valley University
Utah license
#12252120-7100 and #12252120-8919
#8693948-1202
#9169666-1202
Conditions he sees most
Knee pain, spinal conditions, and neuropathy
Degenerative knees, neuropathy, sciatica, and bulged or herniated discs
Sports and soft-tissue injuries, spine and joint mechanics
What he does in your care
Regenerative evaluation, stem cell and PRP injections
Chiropractic care, spinal decompression, movement correction
Gentle chiropractic techniques and rehabilitation
Experience
First NMD to establish a practice inside a major Puerto Rico hospital
75,000+ adjustments; author of “The Future of Healing”
100,000+ adjustments; athletes from youth level to Olympic
Languages
English and Spanish
English and Spanish
English
We pair the NMD and DC licenses on purpose. Dr. Alec holds his Utah license as a naturopathic medical doctor, Dr. Chalk and Dr. Creer are licensed chiropractic physicians, and the doctor planning your injections works from the same exam as the doctors restoring how your spine and joints move. Every one of our license numbers is printed at the bottom of this page.
What a Pain Management Doctor Does at Our Clinic
Most people who search for a pain management doctor picture a prescription pad or a cortisone needle. A pain management specialist, as we practice it in South Jordan, is a doctor whose whole job is to find out why you hurt and then repair or retrain the tissue causing it, so the pain stops coming back instead of being quieted for a few months.
In 2023, 24.3 percent of American adults were living with chronic pain, and among adults 65 and older the figure was 36 percent. The patient we meet most often is somewhere between 50 and 80, has hurt for years, and has already been through the pills, the injections, and the physical therapy. We built Freedom Integrated Medicine so patients across Salt Lake County would have a regenerative and integrative option that treats the cause, and the three of us are the doctors who deliver it.
Which Kind of Pain Management Doctor Do You Need?
The title “pain management doctor” covers very different kinds of training, and knowing the difference can save you a wasted appointment. Most hospital pain clinics are staffed by MDs or DOs who trained first in anesthesiology or physical medicine and rehabilitation, then added a pain medicine fellowship that leads to a second board certification. Their work centers on epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency ablation (heating a small nerve so it stops sending pain signals for a while), and implanted spinal cord stimulators, and many of them also manage long-term pain medication.
Our team approaches pain from the side of the tissue itself. Dr. Alec brings naturopathic medical training and a pain management residency and leads our regenerative injections, while Dr. Chalk and Dr. Creer are chiropractic physicians trained in how the spine and joints move and carry load. Together we answer the two questions every worn knee or irritated disc raises, which are whether the tissue can be helped to repair and what keeps putting stress on it.
We do not implant spinal cord stimulators, perform nerve ablations, or write opioid prescriptions, so if that is the care you are after, a hospital-based interventional pain practice is the better fit. Most people who reach our door have already been down that road, or would rather not start it, and want a plan built around healing the joint, disc, or nerve that hurts.
How Three Doctors Treat One Patient
Most pain clinics are organized around a single tool, so the patient’s problem quietly gets shaped to fit whatever the building offers. We organized ours the other way around. The federal task force on pain management best practices encourages a multidisciplinary approach that uses more than one treatment modality for chronic pain, and it is the model we practice every day.
Dr. Alec examines the tissue and decides whether it needs regenerative help, such as a stem cell or PRP injection into a worn knee or an irritated disc. Dr. Chalk and Dr. Creer examine the mechanics that are loading that tissue wrong, then correct them with chiropractic care, spinal decompression, or targeted rehabilitation, and cold laser therapy speeds the healing between visits. Your plan is one plan, and the three of us compare notes on it in the same hallway.
Conditions Our Pain Management Doctors Treat in South Jordan and Draper
The patients we see most often have chronic pain in a knee, the back or neck, a hip, or a shoulder, and many have been told the joint is worn out. Others come to us for sciatica that runs down one leg, for peripheral neuropathy that burns or numbs their feet at night, for degenerative arthritis, or for whiplash and soft-tissue injuries after a car accident on Bangerter Highway or I-15.
A few situations are outside what we treat. Pain from a fracture that has not been set, an active infection, a complete tear, a suspected cancer, or an unstable spine needs a hospital or a surgeon first, and if your exam points there we will tell you plainly and help you get to the right place.
What the Way Your Pain Feels Tells Us
I (Dr. Chalk) ask every new patient to describe the pain in their own words before I look at a single X-ray, because the words people choose point toward the tissue involved more often than you would expect. “Burning” and “like my socks are bunched up” send us in a completely different direction than “a deep ache that loosens up after breakfast.”
How patients describe it
What we most often find
Where our care usually starts
Burning, tingling, or pins and needles in the feet, worse at night, sometimes numb like walking on cotton
Irritated or damaged peripheral nerves (neuropathy)
Neuropathy treatment with cold laser therapy and regenerative care
A deep ache in the knee or hip, stiff for the first half hour of the morning, grinding on stairs
Wear in the joint surface (osteoarthritis)
Regenerative injections paired with knee decompression and joint mechanics
Pain that starts in the low back or buttock and shoots below the knee, worse after sitting or driving
A bulging or herniated disc pressing on a nerve root (sciatica)
Spinal decompression and chiropractic adjustments
A sharp, pinpoint pain with one particular motion, such as reaching overhead or gripping a pan
A strained or partly torn tendon or ligament
PRP injections and targeted rehabilitation
Neck stiffness and headaches that show up a day or two after a car accident
Whiplash strain in the soft tissue of the neck
Whiplash chiropractic care and cold laser therapy
Plenty of patients over 60 have two of these patterns at once, a knee that aches like arthritis and feet that burn like neuropathy, and your exam and X-rays are how we sort out which one is driving your worst days.
When Is It Time to See a Pain Management Doctor?
Doctors generally call pain chronic once it has lasted about three months, and that is a sensible point to see a specialist instead of waiting for it to fade. In our exam rooms, these signs usually tell us more than the calendar does.
- Each cortisone shot wears off a little sooner than the last one, or you have been told you are near the limit for the year.
- You have added a second or third medication, or you take something every night just to fall asleep.
- You have quietly given up something you love, like the morning walk around Oquirrh Lake or kneeling in the garden.
- A surgeon has put a date on the calendar and you want a careful second look first.
Some symptoms should not wait for any clinic appointment, including ours. Go to an emergency room if back pain comes with new trouble controlling your bladder or bowels, numbness in the groin or inner thighs, leg weakness that is getting worse by the hour, or a fever, or if it started after a serious fall. Those signs can point to severe nerve compression or an infection, and both need hospital care the same day.
Your First Visit at Our South Jordan Pain Management Clinic
The phone call
When you call (801) 571-1338, our friendly front desk staff will ask where you hurt and how long it has been going on, then schedule your $49 New Patient Special, usually within a few days. No referral is required, and they handle the paperwork.
The exam
Your first visit is a one-on-one consultation with one of us, followed by a full physical exam and X-rays. We want your whole story, including what has already been tried, because that history tells us as much as the imaging does. Then we look at how you move and what the X-rays show about joint space, alignment, and degeneration.
The report of findings
We sit down with the results, show you your own X-rays, and explain exactly what we found. If we believe we can help, you get a personalized plan with the number of visits, what each one involves, and the full investment, all before you decide anything. If we are not the right fit, we say so and point you to the right place.
Treatment and progress
An adjustment takes minutes, a decompression session runs about half an hour while you lie on the table, cold laser therapy feels like gentle warmth, and injections are done in the office with no downtime beyond taking it easy that day. Many patients notice a change in the first few weeks, and improvement tends to build from there as the tissue heals and the mechanics hold.
What to bring to your first visit
The more of your history we can see, the faster we get to an answer, so these are worth gathering before you come in.
- Any MRI or X-ray reports from the last few years, plus the images if you have them.
- A list of your current medications and supplements, with doses.
- The dates of past injections, surgeries, and rounds of physical therapy, and roughly how long each one helped.
- One or two things the pain keeps you from doing, since those become the goals we measure your progress against.
How the Usual Pain Treatments Compare
Most people reading this have already had at least one of the treatments below, so this is how we explain them in the exam room.
Treatment
What it is designed to do
What to know
Prescription pain medication, including opioids
Quiet the pain signal in the nerves and brain
The CDC’s 2022 clinical guideline states that nonopioid therapies are preferred for chronic pain, with opioids considered only when the benefits clearly outweigh the risks.
Repeated cortisone injections in the knee
Calm inflammation inside the joint for a period of weeks
Radiofrequency ablation
Heat a small nerve so it temporarily stops carrying pain signals
Cleveland Clinic reports that relief usually lasts six to twelve months because the treated nerve can grow back, so the procedure is often repeated.
Joint replacement or spine surgery
Remove, replace, or restructure the damaged part
The right answer for some joints, and it comes with a hospital stay and a rehabilitation period that often runs for months.
Our regenerative and integrative plan
Support repair in the worn joint, disc, or nerve and correct the mechanics that keep stressing it
Done in our South Jordan office with no downtime, and progress builds over weeks as the tissue heals.
Medication and cortisone have their place, such as getting someone through a bad flare before a daughter’s wedding. As a long-term plan for a joint that is still wearing down, they leave the underlying problem in place, which is the situation most of our patients are in by the time they find us.
Why Salt Lake County Patients Choose Our Pain Management Doctors
Freedom Integrated Medicine is one of the few pain management clinics in Utah that practices regenerative and integrative medicine together, so stem cell and PRP injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy all come from the same team on the same plan. Combining them is how we heal an injury at a deep and lasting level.
Pills and repeat cortisone quiet the pain signal while the joint or nerve underneath keeps deteriorating, which is why the pain returns. We find and treat the source of that signal, and when we do, our patients get back to work, long walks, grandchildren, and full nights of sleep, with no operation to recover from and no prescription to manage.
Since opening in 2020, we have helped thousands of patients and earned more than 300 five-star Google reviews, which is why we are known as the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County. Our work has also been featured in the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News, and on Telemundo.
Dr. Alec and Dr. Chalk examine, explain findings, and lay out treatment plans directly in English and Spanish, so patients can make medical decisions in whichever language they are most comfortable. Si prefiere hablar en español, ellos lo atienden directamente, y nuestras páginas en español explican las condiciones que tratamos con más frecuencia.
What Patients Say About Our Doctors
What It Costs to See a Pain Management Specialist Here
Regenerative pain management is an investment in your health, and the fairest way to weigh it is against the full cost of the path you are already on. Another year of managing chronic pain usually means more copays, a longer medication list with its own side effects, another cortisone shot that wears off sooner than the last, and for many of our patients a surgery date they are dreading, along with the sleep and the activities the pain keeps taking.
The first step costs $49. The $49 New Patient Special covers a one-on-one consultation, a full exam, and X-rays, so you find out what is causing your pain before anyone recommends treatment. Your exact plan and investment are laid out in writing at your report of findings, and you decide from there.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Pain Management Doctors
Why should I choose Freedom Integrated Medicine for pain management?
Freedom Integrated Medicine is the top-rated and most trusted regenerative medicine clinic in Salt Lake County, and patients from South Jordan and Draper choose our pain management doctors because we treat the joint, disc, or nerve behind the pain without surgery or prescription medication. More than 300 patients have left us five-star Google reviews, and thousands of people with chronic knee, back, and nerve pain have found lasting relief here since we opened in 2020. All three of our doctors hold active Utah licenses listed on this page and work from one shared plan that combines regenerative injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy.
What is pain management?
Pain management is the medical specialty of diagnosing the cause of ongoing pain and treating it so a person can move, work, and sleep normally again. At Freedom Integrated Medicine in South Jordan, pain management means finding the worn joint, irritated disc, or damaged nerve behind the pain and repairing it with regenerative injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy, so the relief lasts because the cause has changed.
What do pain management doctors do?
Pain management doctors examine you, identify the exact tissue or structure producing your pain, and build a treatment plan aimed at that source. At our clinic, Dr. Alec Laracuente evaluates the tissue and oversees stem cell and PRP injections, while Dr. Steven Chalk and Dr. Dustin Creer correct the alignment and movement problems that keep re-injuring it.
What are pain management clinics?
A pain management clinic is a practice devoted to treating chronic pain rather than handling it as one item on a general doctor’s list. Freedom Integrated Medicine is one of the few pain management clinics in Utah that combines regenerative and integrative medicine in one building, so a patient in South Jordan or Draper can get stem cell or PRP injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy from the same team on one coordinated plan.
Are your pain management doctors near Draper, Riverton, and Herriman?
Yes, our pain management clinic at 4775 W. Daybreak Parkway in South Jordan is a short drive from Draper, Riverton, Herriman, West Jordan, Sandy, and every Daybreak neighborhood. We sit between Bangerter Highway and Mountain View Corridor, less than a mile from the Daybreak Parkway TRAX station, with easy parking at the door, and patients from across the southwest Salt Lake Valley see our doctors every week.
Can you help me manage chronic pain?
Yes, chronic pain is what we treat every day, and the patients we help most have hurt for years and already tried medication, cortisone, or physical therapy. We treat chronic knee, back, neck, hip, and shoulder pain, sciatica, neuropathy, arthritis, and lingering car accident injuries, and the $49 New Patient Special is how we find out whether your case is one we can help.
What happens at your first pain management appointment?
Your first appointment is a one-on-one consultation with one of our doctors, a full physical exam, and X-rays, all included in the $49 New Patient Special. At a follow-up visit we go over the findings with you, show you your own images, and lay out a personalized plan and its investment before you decide anything.
Do your pain management doctors prescribe pain medication?
No, our pain management doctors do not treat chronic pain with prescription medication. We treat the source of the pain with regenerative injections, chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and cold laser therapy instead. If you currently take medication, keep taking it as directed by the prescribing doctor while we work on the underlying problem.
Do I need a referral to see a pain management specialist at your clinic?
You do not need a referral to see our pain management doctors in South Jordan. Call (801) 571-1338 or schedule online and our friendly front desk staff will book your $49 New Patient Special directly. Bring any recent imaging you have, and we can take X-rays in the office if you do not.
I have been told I need surgery. Can your pain management doctors still help?
Yes, and patients who have been told surgery is their only option are among the people we treat most often. Many worn knees and irritated discs respond well to regenerative and integrative care once the mechanics are corrected, and we will tell you at the exam whether your case is one of them.
What is the difference between a pain management doctor and an orthopedic surgeon?
An orthopedic surgeon’s main tool is an operation to repair or replace a damaged joint or spine, while a pain management doctor finds the source of the pain and treats it without surgery whenever possible. If your exam shows damage that truly needs a surgeon, such as a complete tear, we say so at your report of findings and help you get to one.
How is a pain management specialist different from a chiropractor?
A pain management specialist diagnoses and treats the source of chronic pain using whatever tools the problem calls for, while a chiropractor works primarily on joint and spinal mechanics. At our clinic you get both, because Dr. Alec brings regenerative medicine and pain management residency training, and Dr. Chalk and Dr. Creer bring more than 175,000 combined adjustments.
What does NMD mean, and is a naturopathic medical doctor a real doctor?
NMD stands for Naturopathic Medical Doctor, a doctoral-level physician licensed by the State of Utah to examine, diagnose, and treat patients. Dr. Alec earned his Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a PhD in Integrative Medicine, completed a Family Practice and Pain Management Residency, and both of his Utah license numbers are listed on this page for you to verify.
How do I choose the right pain management doctor?
Choose a pain management doctor who can tell you exactly what is causing your pain, shows you the evidence on your own imaging, and explains the full plan and its cost before you commit to anything. Check the doctor’s license on the Utah state lookup, read reviews from patients with your specific condition, and ask what happens if you are not improving.
Are stem cell and PRP injections painful, and does chiropractic care hurt?
Our injections are done in the office in minutes with local numbing, and most patients describe pressure rather than pain, while our adjustments are gentle and explained before they happen. Decompression and cold laser therapy are comfortable enough that many patients relax through them.
How soon will I feel a difference?
Many of our patients notice a change within the first few weeks of care, often better sleep or easier stairs, and progress tends to build from there. The exact timeline depends on the condition and how much tissue repair is involved, so we give you a realistic expectation for your case at the report of findings.
Do your pain management doctors speak Spanish?
Many of our patients notice a change within the first few weeks of care, often better sleep or easier stairs, and progress tends to build from there. The exact timeline depends on the condition and how much tissue repair is involved, so we give you a realistic expectation for your case at the report of findings.
Where is your pain management clinic, and what are your hours?
Yes, Dr. Alec Laracuente and Dr. Steven Chalk both examine, explain findings, and treat patients in Spanish. A Spanish-speaking patient gets the same direct conversation with the doctor as anyone else, without a family member translating, and our Spanish-language site covers neuropathy, sciatica, back pain, knee pain, and whiplash.
Visit Our Pain Management Clinic in South Jordan
Our clinic sits on Daybreak Parkway in South Jordan, between Bangerter Highway and Mountain View Corridor and less than a mile from the Daybreak Parkway TRAX station, and it is an easy trip for patients coming from Draper, Riverton, Herriman, West Jordan, Sandy, and the rest of Salt Lake County. If you have read this far, you already know more about the three of us than most patients know about a doctor before their first visit. When you are ready, call our friendly front desk staff and book your $49 New Patient Special.
Freedom Integrated Medicine
4775 W. Daybreak Parkway, STE 102, South Jordan, UT 84009
Phone: (801) 571-1338
Hours:
Monday to Wednesday: 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Friday: 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Book your $49 New Patient Special today, and let us help you get back to working, living, playing, and sleeping without pain.
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We're Ready To Treat Your Musculoskeletal Pain.
With decades of hands-on training and experience, our practitioners have helped thousands of Salt Lake County patients manage everything from whiplash and neuropathy to bulging discs, arthritis, and chronic joint pain. Doctors Chalk, Creer, and Laracuente combine chiropractic care and spinal decompression with advanced regenerative medicine treatments like stem cell therapy, PRP, A2M, and cold laser therapy to treat musculoskeletal conditions and support natural healing.
Come in for an initial consultation to discuss your symptoms and goals. We’ll identify the source of your pain through a physical exam and diagnostic testing when needed. From there, we’ll create a personalized treatment plan that may include spinal decompression, soft tissue therapy, laser therapy, regenerative medicine, or other proven non surgical treatments designed to relieve pain and restore mobility.
Get in touch with us today to begin your healing journey.