Meet Our Expert Team
Your care team is comprised of health professionals and physicians with special qualifications in pain medicine.
Find Relief for Back & Neck Pain
We specialize in the diagnosis, management and relief of neck and upper and lower back pain.Treatment for Chronic & Acute Pain
We can help you manage persistent back pain, arthritis, herniated discs, migraines, fibromyalgia and more.Our Services & Procedures
In additional to spinal cord stimulation, we offer interventional procedures such as nerve blocks and steroid injections.Medial Branch Nerve Block
Medial branch nerves are small nerves that feed out from the facet joints in the spine, and carry pain signals from those joints (think of “media” and its delivery of information) . Facet joint injections are often used simply to identify a pain source; however, these injections, and possibly subsequent treatment attempts, do not always provide considerable or even lasting pain relief.
A medial branch nerve block temporarily interrupts the pain signal being carried by the medial branch nerves that supply a specific facet joint. If the patient has the appropriate duration of pain relief after the medial branch nerve block, then he or she may be a candidate for radiofrequency neurotomy. A radiofrequency neurotomy (a.k.a. rhizotomy) is an injection procedure in which a heat lesion is created on certain nerves with the goal of interrupting the pain signals to the brain. Rhizotomy can in some cases provide pain relief lasting nine to fourteen months and sometimes much longer.