An outpatient procedure may help to diagnose or relieve your back pain, neck pain or sciatica.

If you have spine pain, disc problems, pinched nerves or spine arthritis, an injection may work for you.

Pain related to the spine and spinal nerves affects millions of Americans and often results in disability. While some patients require surgery, most patients can avoid conventional surgery. Too many patients are told that there is nothing wrong.

We first consider the patient's history, physical examination, and radiological studies. Fluoroscopically guided spinal injections are key in many treatment plans. Spinal injections may be required to further refine the diagnosis, or they may be used to reduce pain and improve function. Also, spinal injections may be useful in surgical planning.

New alternatives to conventional disk surgery have arisen. These are commonly referred to as minimally invasive disk surgeries. We perform both percutaneous disk decompressions and Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty (IDET).

For arthritic back or neck pain we offer radiofrequency facet neurotomies.

We also offer the advanced implantation pain treatment, spinal cord stimulation. Chronic nerve pain such as sciatica that has resisted more conservative therapies may be treated with spinal cord stimulation.