Pain Medicine

Who We Are and What we Do?

Pain Clinic provide most advanced treatment options in pain medicine such as ultrasound and fluoroscopic guided injections for pain management. With cutting edge advanced treatment options with minimally invasive procedures such as radiofrequency ablation, our goal is to help you live life without need for pain medications and in most cases avoid the need of surgery.

We also collaborate with Physical therapist, occupational therapist, alternative care providers to bring holistic approach to wellbeing and pain management. It allows highest level of functioning and non surgical treatment options. We work to understand your unique needs and either provide in office treatment or help facilitate appropriate surgical referral if necessary in certain cases. Advanced therapies such as PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) for treatment of various joint conditions are recommended in certain situations.

Depending on the nature, cause or location we develop your unique treatment plan. We are committed to provide you with the highest level of functioning with goal to live life Pain Free.

Our providers are experienced, fellowship trained, Board Certified Pain Management. Specialists. They have served as regional leaders in several local hospitals spearheading Pain Management programs for years with thousands of loyal patient following.

Contact us to learn more about how we treat our patients in the comfort of our own in-office procedure suite. We accept most insurances, no referral from a primary care physician is required.

Who We Are and What we Do?

• Low and upper Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Pain from Arthritis of Various Joints
• Work Related injuries
• Cancer related chronic Pain
• Chronic Recurrent Headaches/Migraines
• Myofascial Pain including fibromyalgia
• Sciatica Pain
• Shingles Nerve Pain/ Post Herpetic Neuralgia
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Complex regional pain syndromes
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Failed Previous Back Surgeries
• Phantom Limb/Stump Pain
• Post sports injury pain
• Chronic abdominal Pain
• Post Motor vehicle accident related pain
• Spasticity or muscle tightness from Multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury
• Facet Pain Syndrome
• Radiculopathy
• Sacroiliac Pain Syndrome
• Spinal Cord Pain and spinal Headaches
• Surgical incision pain
• Pain following amputations and injuries
• Pain from soft tissue injuries

Services includes

• Nerve blocks
• Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) therapy
• Intravenous therapy
• Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
• Neuromuscular Stimulation (NMS)
• Dorsal column stimulation (SCS)
• Joint Injections
• Behavioral Pain Medicine
• Physical Therapy
• Medical Management of Chronic Pain

Injection Treatments

• Ultrasound Guided Injections:With the help of an ultrasound imaging, we can perform precise injections to the area of pain. It allows medicine to be delivered to exact location and target. No radiation exposure with ultrasound and it is safe and non invasive. It is also safe in pregnancy.
• Nerve Blocks:Blocking certain nerves with medications stop pain from reaching to the brain. This offers immediate pain relief of severe and acute pain. It is also used in chronic pain treatment. It improves day to day functioning and quality of life by decreasing irritation around the nerves.
• Low Back Pain, Leg Pain treatment with Lumbar Epidural Injections:Lumbar epidural injections with steroids under x ray guidance help with temporary but immediate pain relief in acute conditions.
• Neck, Shoulder and Arm Pain with cervical epidural injections:this helps improve pain and inflammation around the nerves in the neck. It allows you to improve your activities of daily living which could be affected by pain.
• Facet Joint Injections for Back and Neck Pain:Medicine with injected into the inflamed joint in the vertebrae. Immediate pain improved can be noted within few hours. Improvement can last for weeks to months and some time longer.
• Large Joint Injections for Lower Back, Knee and Shoulder Pain:These help with reducing pain and inflammation of large joints in the body. It results in improved functional level.
• Sacroiliac Joint Injections:Helps relieve pain, swelling and inflammation around the Sacroiliac joint.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)

In this outpatient Minimally invasive procedure done less than an hour an X-ray is used to locate and treat pain causing nerves using radiofrequency energy. An area to be treated is numbed with needle the heat energy with RFA is used to treat affected nerves. Pain signals going to the brain are disrupted. Pain relief starts within few weeks after treatment and effect can be of longer duration from 6 months upto 2 years in most cases. You can resume your activities with in a day.

What are advantages of Radiofrequency Ablation

• It is significantly less expensive than alternative surgical treatment.
• Minimise need for Narcotics and other pain medications for pain relief
• Can be done in the outpatient setting in less than an hour
• Provide effective pain relief which can last 2-3 years.
• Improve function and mobility
• Fast recovery
• No hospital stay
• Non surgical less invasive technique

Who can benefit from RFA treatment

• Patient with arthritis of Knee and Hip joints
• No response to steroid injections in the past
• Previous surgeries and no pain relief
• If you have been denied surgery due to medical conditions or advanced age