Our Treatments
The center was designed to deliver treatment to pain patients in a caring and compassionate manner,
with an understanding of how chronic pain can affect numerous facets of an individual’s life.
Treatment List Below
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Sympathetic Block
- Hormonal-Therapy
- Addiction Treatment
- Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
- Regenerative Medicine
- Radiofrequency Nerve Ablation
- Percutaneous Disc Decompression
- Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP)
- Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection
- Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial
- Lumbar Disc Microsurgery
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Medication Management
- Trigger Point Injections
- Facet Joint Injections
- Botox For Migraines
- Ketamine Infusion
- Intrathecal Pump
- Discography
- Kyphoplasty
- THC
What is Vertebrogenic pain?
Vertebrogenic pain is a specific form of chronic low back pain that arises from damage to the vertebral endplates, which form the interface between the disc and the vertebral body. Over time, disc degeneration and normal wear and tear place stress on the endplates, causing injury, inflammation, and the onset of vertebrogenic pain.
How does this procedure work?
The dysfunctional nerves causing the painful stimulus are targeted using various image guidance technology (Fluoroscopy, CT Scan, or Ultrasound) and injections of local anesthesia (such as lidocaine) prior to the RFA procedure. If the local anesthesia injections provide temporary pain relief, then RFA is performed on the nerve(s) that responded well to the injections.
RFA is a minimally invasive procedure which can usually be done in an ambulatory setting, going home shortly after completion of the procedure. The person is awake during the procedure, so risks associated with general anesthesia are avoided. An intravenous line may be inserted so that mild sedatives can be administered.
The coating around the nerves are heated using radio waves conducted through a needle. In heating the coating around the nerves, the signals emitting the pain stimulus are interrupted for an average of six months to 2 years.
Interruption of the pain signals through radiofrequency nerve ablation may be applied to the spinal nerves of the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine or any nerve innervating (communicating at the level of) the joint of the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, ankle, as well as the nerves of the head and face.
A Clear Diagnostic Basis for Vertebrogenic Pain
MRI is used to detect characteristic alterations linked to endplate inflammation, referred to as Modic changes.