Most procedures are performed in an outpatient surgical center using flouroscopy (x-ray) guidance and with appropriate sedation by an anesthesia provider.
- Trigger point injections and Botox injections for myofascial or muscular pain.
- Epidural steroid injections and transforaminal steroid injections for cervical, thoracic, and lumbar nerve root pain.
- Facet and sacroiliac joint injections for arthritic type pain of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
- Facet and sacroiliac joint radiofrequency neurotomy (nerve ablation) for longer lasting relief of arthritic type spine pain.
- Diagnostic procedures to localize pain such as discography, selective nerve root block, and sympathetic nerve block.
- Sympathetic nerve blocks for complex region pain state (CRPS or RSD) including Stellate ganglion block, thoracic and lumbar sympathetic blocks.
- Percutaneous intradiscal electrothermal annuloplasty (IDET) for intractable discogenic back pain.
- Percutaneous nucleoplasty and discectomy for contained disc herniations producing sciatica.
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporetic vertebral body compression fractures.
- Simple or complex implanted spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation systems for failed back surgery pain or other intractable pain states.
- Implanted intrathecal pain pumps for severe intractable pain.
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