Services

Pain Management Specialists utilizes a state-of-the-art, fully-licensed, medical facilities and surgery centers. We offer the latest pain management procedures and treatments. Below are brief descriptions and videos about some of the procedures we provide at Pain Management Specialists!

Injection Therapy

• Epidural Steroid Injections
- This procedure can help relive neck, thoracic, low back and leg pain by reducing inflammation caused by an inflamed disc or nerve. An injection can also help the physician diagnose the source of pain.


• Trigger Point Injections
- This procedure assists in the treatment of muscular pain and spasm.


• Facet Injections
- This procedure assists in the diagnosis and treatment of back pain caused by degenerative disease in the joints of the spine.


 

A safe, proven means of interrupting pain signals, a radiofrequency current is used to heat up a small volume of nerve tissue, thereby interrupting pain signals in a specific area.

This procedure stimulates the nerves with tiny, electrical impulses. An implanted lead, which is powered by an implanted battery or receiver, is placed against the spinal cord. The system sends electrical pulses that block the pain messages to the brain.

A minimally invasive therapy in which the physician applies controlled levels of thermal energy (heat) to a broad section of the affected disc wall in the spine. The result can provide a desensitization of the pain sensors within the disc.

Epiduroscopy is a procedure used to diagnose and treat the causes of chronic low back pain. A catheter is inserted into the suspected area of pain, allowing the physician to directly see the inflamed root or nerve. The physician can then place medication directly onto the irritated nerve root, thus relieving pain.

A small pump is surgically placed under the skin of the abdomen to deliver medication intrathecally, where fluid flows around the spinal cord. The medicine is delivered through a tiny tube called a catheter that is also surgically placed. Because the medication is delivered directly to where it is needed, pain control is achieved with a fraction of the dose that would be required with oral medications.