Interventional Pain

We strive to provide you with the most effective pain relief possible, which is why we use a variety of interventional procedures. Guidance from X-ray or ultrasound imaging helps us deliver the therapy to the exact source of your pain. This works whether we are using steroid injections or heat-based remedies. These procedures are typically done in an outpatient setting and are generally performed in the radiology department.

List of Procedures (including but not limited to):

Epidural steroid injections: Used to treat irritated spinal nerve roots that cause pain in your neck, shoulders, arms, back, buttocks or legs.

Foraminal injections: Used to relieve lower-back, leg and foot pain caused by sciatica, herniated discs or other spine conditions.

Facet joint injections: Used to deliver medication into the small spinal joints to treat pain that can radiate to the head, neck and back.

Medial branch blocks: Used to diagnose and treat pain coming from the small joints of the spine (facet joints) with X-ray guidance.

Medial branch ablation: Used for patients who respond to medial branch blocks and need longer-lasting relief through radiofrequency ablation.

Caudal injections: Used to treat chronic lower-back and leg pain, especially in patients who have had prior back surgery. This procedure is performed in the coccygeal (tailbone or caudal) region.

SI injections: Used to relieve pain caused by arthritis in the sacroiliac joint, where the spine and hip bone meet. 

Genicular blocks: Used to treat chronic knee pain that has not responded to conservative treatments.

Genicular ablation: Used for patients who respond to genicular blocks and need longer-lasting relief through radiofrequency ablation.

Joint injections: Used to treat pain in major or minor joints, including the hip, knee and shoulder.

Occipital nerve block: Used to treat headaches, including migraines.

Intercostal nerve block: Used to block nerves beneath the ribs and to treat upper-back, flank or chest-wall pain.

Stellate ganglion block: Used to treat upper extremities, head, neck and shoulder pain related to shingles or reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). It is also a NEW treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Intracept: Used for patients who don't have spinal instability or scoliosis, but they present with MRI changes (i.e., Modic changes). These patients generally have experienced chronic low back pain for more than six months.

OsteoCool: Used in spinal procedures for palliative treatment of metastatic lesions and for ablation of benign bone tumors, such as osteoid osteoma.