Treatments/Procedures

Here are some of the procedures that we perform. Most can be done under local anesthesia or with IV sedation.

Cervical procedures

• Epidural steroid injection
• Selective root injection, diagnostic
• Facet/medial nerve block
• Cervical medial branch radiofrequency ablation
• Stellate ganglion/sympathetic blocks
• Discography
• C-2 ganglion block
• OA diagnostic blocks
• Cervical epidural/transforaminal neuroplasty or lysis of adhesions

Lumbar procedures

• Lumbar facet blocks
• Diagnostic medial branch nerve injections
• Selective nerve root blocks
• Sacroiliac joint injection
• Coccygeal nerve blocks for coccydynia
• Radiofrequency rhizotomy – lumbar medial branch nerves
• Discography
• Epidural steroid injection
• Lumbar sympathetic block
• Percutaneous discectomy
• Piriformis block
• Kyphoplasty
• Biacuplasty
• Sinuvertebral neurotomy
• Intradiscal electrocoagulation therapy
• Trufuse facet fusion
• Sacroiliac joint bipolar rhizotomy
• Cooled RF for SI joint
• Ventral transforaminal epidural neuroplasty or epidural lysis of adhesions

Hip, knee, shoulder, wrist and ankle procedures

• Joint injections
• Joint aspirations
• Intra-articular steroid injections
• Intra-articular Synvisc or Euflexxa injections
• Tendon injections

Facial pain and headaches

• Trigeminal nerve block
• Stereotactic radiofrequency ablation of the gasserian ganglion
• Third occipital nerve blocks and radiofrequency treatments
• C-2 blocks
• OA and AA blocks
• Sphenopalatine ganglion blocks
• Occipital nerve blocks

Thoracic procedures

• Diagnostic medial branch nerve injections
• Facet injections
• Epidural steroid injection
• Intercostal nerve blocks
• Radiofrequency rhizotomy
• Kyphoplasty
• Paravertebral nerve blocks
• Paravertebral neurotomy
• Intradiscal therapies
• Sinuvertebral blocks

Abdominal and pelvic procedures, treatments for cancer pain

• Celiac plexus block/splanchnic block
• Celiac plexus neurolysis
• Ganglion impar block
• Hypogastric plexus block
• Pudendal nerve block
• Epidural port-a-caths
• Sympathetic ganglia ablation

Stimulators

• Implantation, programming and management
• Spinal cord stimulators trials and implantations, cervical, lumbar and other

Areas

• Peripheral nerve stimulators

Pumps

• Intrathecal trials of morphine, baclofen or prialt
• Intrathecal infusion pumps or morphine pumps

Other

• Epidural blood patch
• Peripheral nerve blocks: suprascapular, occipital, ilio-inguinal, intercostal, supratrochlear, supraorbital and infraorbital nerve blocks, mental, genitofemoral, femoral, brachioplexus, lumbar plexus blocks, obturator nerve blocks, continuous nerve sheath catheters, etc.