Procedures
Our procedures at Advanced Spine and Pain Center are state-of-the-art in medical treatments and patient comfort. We work to see what procedure is best for your condition.
Epidural Injections
An Epidural injection is perhaps the single most useful intervention available in the modern interventional pain clinic. Epidural therapy is effective in the treatment of many painful conditions including intervertebral disc injury, acute herpes zoster, post-herpetic neuralgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, radicular pain in pregnancy, cancer pain, and post-surgical pain. It is also used as an adjunct to noninvasive therapy and may allow the patient to participate more fully in physical therapies and comprehensive rehabilitation programs.
Facet Medial Branch Nerve Blocks
The use of neural blockade for the diagnosis and treatment of persistent pain is a well established practice. Regional anesthesia techniques perfected over the past century are commonly used at Advanced Spine & Pain Centers to diagnose and treat difficult pain problems. Since pain impulses are transmitted by specific nerves, blockade of these nerves can give useful information as to the sources for pain.
For instance, by blocking somatic (body wall) nerves, we can sometimes determine whether pain is originating within the body wall structures as opposed to internal organ structures.
This knowledge can improve accuracy in diagnosing pain syndromes and guide surgical therapy or interventional pain treatment.
FJNA - Facet Joint Neurotomy
Radio frequency neurotomy (also called radio frequency ablation or lesioning) is a minimally invasive procedure that can provide lasting relief to those suffering from facet joint pain.
Sacroiliac Joint Injections
A sacroiliac joint injection serves several purposes. First, by placing numbing medicine into the joint, the amount of immediate pain relief you experience will help confirm or deny the joint as a source of your pain. Additionally, the temporary pain relief of the numbing medicine may better allow a physical therapist or chiropractor to treat the joint.
Stellate Ganglion Block
Similar to other types of injections, a stellate ganglion block helps to provide both, pain relief and diagnostic feedback, to confirm or deny the pain generator. For example, a stellate ganglion block can help confirm the diagnosis of CRPS.
Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty
Kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty is a more recent approach to compression fractures of the spine. This involves injecting a bone cement under pressure into the collapsed vertebral body, in effect to restore height by forcing the bone fragments into a more pleasing anatomical alignment.