Types of Pain Diagnosed and Treated at Advanced Pain Centers:

• Lower back and neck pain
• Disc pain of the lumbar, cervical and thoracic spine
• Hot Flashes [Click for more information]
• Arm and leg pain
• Sport injuries
• Fibromyalgia
• Whiplash injury
• Headaches from the neck (cervicogenic pain)
• Chronically damaged nerves
• Failed Back Syndrome (people with pain after multiple back surgeries)
• CRPS I, CRPS II and RSD
• Sacroiliac joint pain
• Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome
• Chronic foot pain
• Work-related injuries:
  • Prompt diagnosis and treatment
  • Close coordination with case managers
  • Facilitate early return to work, including assignment to light duty activities where indicated
    

Types of Procedures Performed at the Advanced Pain Centers Include:

Most procedures are performed under C-arm (x-ray guidance) for accuracy and safety.

• Diskography: A high-grade diagnostic test designed to record the patient’s response to injection of dye into the discs.
• Botox Injections: Provides targeted relief of symptoms for the treatment of neck pain and abnormal head position in Cervical Dystonia.
• Nucleoplasty: A minimally invasive procedure developed for patients with herniated discs.
• Highly Selective Epidurals: Cervical, thoracic and lumbar.
• Facet Joint Injections: Cervical, thoracic and lumbar.
• IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy): The disc is repaired by heating the nucleus.
• Radiofrequency Treatments: The nerves to painful structures, such as facet joints, discs and others, can be turned off by applying a special electrical current to the nerve.
• Dorsal Column Stimulators: An electric system that inhibits perception of pain. This can give relief without narcotics.
• Subarachnoid Pumps: An implant that delivers various drugs into the spine to stop the pain on a long-term basis.
• Medial Branch Blocks
• Lysis of Adhesions
• Prolotherapy
• Intramuscular Injections