Specialists in interventional pain management and physical medicine and rehabilitation treat acute and chronic pain arising from trauma, nerve damage, degenerative conditions, cancer and systemic metabolic disorders such as diabetes.
Physicians provide a variety of interventions and strategies for pain self-management to help people regain control of their lives.
Scope of expertise
- Cervical and lumbar radiculopathy and facet arthropathy
- Sacroiliac dysfunction
- Spinal stenosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Vertebral compression fractures
- Neuropathic pain conditions, including peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, and central post-stroke pain
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for vertebral compression fractures
- Stellate, celiac plexus, lumbar sympathetic, superior hypogastric, and ganglion impar blocks and neurolysis
- Facet injections, medial branch nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
- Sacroiliac joint blocks and strip lesioning using RFA
- Transforaminal, interlaminar, and caudal epidural steroid injections
- Greater and lesser occipital, supraorbital, and suprascapular nerve blocks
- Joint and muscle injections
- Spinal cord stimulation
