Common Pain Conditions Treated
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the most common chronic pain complaint, afflicting up to 90% of the population at some time. Causes of low back pain include:
- Facet joint pain
- Intervertebral disc degeneration
- Intervertebral disc herniation causing low back pain with radiation to the leg (radiculopathy)
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Spinal stenosis with associated neurogenic claudication
- Failed back surgery syndrome
Neck Pain
Although less common, neck pain can be just as debilitating as low back pain. The causes can be similar as well:
- Facet joint pain
- Radiculopathy
- Intervertebral disc degeneration or herniation
- Torticollis
- Cervicogenic headache
Thoracic/Abdominal/Groin Pains
These are less common pain complaints and can be due to the following:
- Facet Joint Pain
- Intercostal Neuralgia-nerve pain due to a prior injury or nerve irritation.
- Post-surgical pain-pain that persists after surgery is performed.
- Nerve entrapments
- Pancreatitis, pancreatitic cancer or other abdominal cancers
Head pain
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Occipital neuralgia
- Supraorbital neuralgia
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Cervicogenic headaches
- Orofacial pain
- Post-dural puncture headaches
Pelvic/Groin Pain/Rectal
- Post-Surgical Pain
- Neuralgias of varying nerves:
- Ilioinguinal
- Iliohypogastric
- Genitofemoral
- Pudendal
- Rectal Pain
Extremity pain
- Shoulder pain
- Knee pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Causalgia
- Nerve entrapments
Neuropathic pain syndromes
- CRPS
- RSD
- Causalgia
- Phantom limb pain
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Entrapment neuralgias
Central pain syndromes
- Post-stroke pain
- Syringomyelia
- Thalamic pain syndrome
- Spinal cord injury
Mixed pain disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Myofascial Pain Syndrome
- Cancer pain
- Spasticity
Any other painful disorder not responding to initial therapy
Common Procedures
- Epidural injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal)
- Selective epidural and root blocks (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral)
- Facet injections and medial branch blocks (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
- Radiofrequency Denervation Video 1/Video 2
- Lysis of adhesions (Racz procedure)
- Provocative Discography
- Disc nucleoplasty (decompression)
- Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty (IDET)
- L2 Grey Rami Communicans Block
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Joint injections Video 1/Video 2/Video 3
- Neurolysis of celiac plexus for cancer pain
- Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion, thoracic, lumbar and hypogastric)
- Botulism toxin for torticollis
- Trigger point injections
- Intrathecal and epidural infusion systems
- Spinal cord stimulation, trialing and implantation
