Inspired by a close family member’s personal battle with severe debilitating pain, our founding physicians are idealistic about practicing pain medicine “the right way.”

When Dr. Tory McJunkin and Dr. Paul Lynch founded Arizona Pain, it was the realization of a dream decades in the making. The thriving medical practice, with more than 160 employees and helping more than 7,000 patients monthly, has blossomed from the seed of a college friendship.

Their freshman year of college, the pre-med students had many of the same classes. While intense competition is the landscape in such an environment, Paul and Tory decided cooperation was a better plan. They studied together during the week and prayed together on the weekends. Their plan and mutual passion for medicine worked.

Four years later, they were off to the university of Oklahoma College of Medicine. Life took an unexpected turn, when Paul’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. He spent weeks trying to find relief for her debilitating pain, and during the process learned about interventional pain procedures. before medical school graduation, he realized that this was his calling in life and immediately drove to Tory’s house. Tory heard the excitement in his friend’s voice.

I know what I’m going to do with my life! Paul said.

Tory listened with growing interest and firmly said, “Me too.”

Paul laughed in disbelief saying “Seriously, I’m going to become an anesthesiologist and then study pain management. This is what I’m supposed to do, I just know it.”

Tory stepped closer and with a tone that was unmistakably serious said “I know, and this is the specialty I was made to practice too, I just didn’t know it existed. I’m alsogoing to pursue this career, whatever it takes!”

That’s exactly what they did. They obtained positions in top-tier programs – university of Iowa and New york university, and then each secured a position at the most coveted interventional pain program. years later, with prayer and their passion to help others suffering from pain at the forefront of their motivation, the pair created Arizona Pain.

Today, the practice includes offices in Chandler, Glendale and Scottsdale with a handful of similarly minded, passionate physicians, chiropractors, therapists, and health care providers.

Jeff Grabosky runs Pain Free.

For Jeff Grabosky, the answer is a feat of historic proportions – he is running across the United States. Over two hundred people have accomplished this goal, however, Jeff is running alone, with no running partners and no car following him carrying his supplies. Only seventeen people before him have completed this run unsupported across the United States.

To prepare to run across the United States, Grabosky had been gradually increasing the length of his runs, peaking at 210 miles in a week, which is 30 miles a day. With a training schedule like that, it comes as no surprise that Grabosky found himself in pain. “I began to experience severe leg pain,” Grabosky explains. “It got to where I had to stop training, which was concerning because I was planning to leave in two weeks. I needed to do something, and so I went to Arizona Pain, where I received active release therapy massage. I instantly felt so much better, and was able to get right back into training. I went from being very nervous to very confident again.”
Jeff Runs Pain Free!

Grabosky has been running for years, but it wasn’t until he suffered great loss that he really began to make it a part of his life. “I had a pretty tough stretch where, in the span of about a week, I lost my mom to cancer and my wife left me,” Grabosky says. “Running is what gave me a sense of purpose again, and so I just started doing more and more of it. I began running marathons and through that was able to raise some money for cancer research, run a few 100 mile races and coach others.”