Pain Management
pain Management
The Center for Brain and Neuro Care will provide comprehensive management of your pain, through their interventional pain division. We’ll use the most advanced, cutting-edge interventional procedures. Our goal is to provide you with the best care of your pain disorder so you can have a pain-free, functional, and productive life style.
Conditions treated
+ Back and leg pain
+ Persistent back or leg pain after spine surgery
+ Cervical spondylosis or arthritis
+ Disc disease or herniation
+ Neck pain after motor vehicle crash injuries
+ Spinal fractures from Osteoporosis
+ Pinched nerves
+ Spinal stenosis
+ Fibromyalgia
+ Complex regional pain syndrome ( CRPS or RSD )
+ Occipital neuralgia with severe headaches
+ Chest wall pain
+ Muscle and joint pains
+ Pain related to cancer
Symptoms of low back pain can include:
+ Dull aching pain and stiffness that gets worse over time and lasts longer than 3 months
+ Pain that is burning, throbbing, or sharp-shooting
+ Muscle spasms or cramping
Back pain can also lead to leg pain with tingling, numbness, or weakness
Symptoms of neck pain can include:
+ Headaches
+ Numbness or weakness in your neck, arms, and hands
+ Pain in your neck, shoulder, arm, or hand
+ Problems walking, including a “spastic gait”
+ Reduced range of motion with crackling in your neck
Therapeutic and Diagnostic Interventions
We will first consider a multidisciplinary approach to your pain treatment. This will include medication therapies, physical therapy, and behavioral therapy. If these conservative measures don’t work well for you, we will tailor proven interventional techniques according to your unique needs and diagnosis.
Treatment under fluoroscopy guidance for accuracy is available in a modern state-of-the-art facility run by our experienced staff.
These treatments include:
+ Epidural steroid injections (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar)
+ Lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections
+ Selective nerve root blocks
+ Caudal steroid injections
+ Epidural lysis of adhesions
+ Facet joint and medial branch blocks
+ Radiofrequency ablation of facets and intercostal muscles
+ Percutaneous disc decompression
+ Discography
+ Vertebroplasty
+ Kyphoplasty and KIVA implant
+ Spinal cord stimulation
+ Lumbar sympathetic plexus blocks
+ Stellate ganglion blocks
+ Brachial plexus blocks
+ Other nerve blocks such as occipital, inguinal, and intercostal