PROCEDURES
Anesthesia
For your comfort, we offer anesthesia services to our patients. During anesthesia, you will be placed in a “twilight sleep” that you will not remember, but will aide in your comfort during your procedure. To accommodate our patient’s schedule, we offer anesthesia services two or three days per month. When using anesthesia, patients are not allowed to eat or drink anything after midnight the night before a procedure. You may resume your normal activities the next day.
Epidural Steroid Injection
An ESI is a non-surgical treatment to relieve low-back related leg pain. This injection is done in our office procedure suite, with or without anesthesia. A ESI injection takes approx 5-10 minutes and the patient may go home shortly thereafter, retuning immediately to their daily activities.
Medial Branch Block
A MBB is a non-surgical treatment for back pain. This injection is done in our office procedure suite, with or without anesthesia. A MBB injection takes approximately 10 minutes and the patient may go home shortly thereafter, retuning immediately to their daily activities.
Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
A CESI is a non-surgical procedure to relieve neck, as well as, arm pain. This procedure is done in our procedure suite with or without anesthesia. This procedure takes approx 5-10 minutes and the patient may go home shortly thereafter, retuning immediately to their daily activities.
Pain Stimulator
A pain stimulator is a surgical treatment for chronic back and leg pain. The trials are done in our procedure suite with anesthesia. This procedure takes approx 45 minutes. The patient wears the trail pack for approximately 4 days. If successful, a permanent implant can be done.
Radiofrequency Nerve Ablation (RFN)
An RFN is intended to decrease or stop low back pain that is caused by an irritated nerve is the facet joint of the spine. For the patient’s comfort, we perform RFN’s mainly with anesthesia, in our office procedure suite. An RFN takes approximately 30 minutes. The patient will go home with a small incision site with 1-2 sutures that will be removed on a 10-day follow up. Normal activities, may be resumed the next day.
Kyphoplasty
Kyphoplasty is a surgical procedure for compression fractures of the spine. For the patient’s comfort, it is done with anesthesia in our office procedure suite. A kyphoplasty takes approximately 30-45 minutes and pain relief is almost instant. There is a small incision with 2-3 sutures that will be removed on your 14 day follow up. Patients normally return to their regular activities the next day.
Sacroiliac Joint Injection