Services

The Spine Clinic in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was established to provide diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for patients with simple or complex painful spinal disorders. The physicians in the UTMC Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center Spine Clinic are oriented toward achieving success with the least aggressive (invasive) therapeutic program feasible.

Services offered include:

Diagnoses Treated:
1. Acute pain syndrome
2. Back pain
3. Pain unresponsive to previous
---back surgery
4. Chronic pain
5. Compression fracture
__(Balloon Kyphoplasty)
6. Discogenic back pain
7. Facet joint pain
8. Headache-undiagnosed
9. Herniated disc – back/neck
10. Leg/back pain – undiagnosed
11. Musculoskeletal pain
12. Neck pain
13. Neck pain-undiagnosed
14. Neuropathic pain
15. Sacroiliac joint pain
16. Shoulder/arm pain–undiagnosed
17. Spinal stensosis
18. Spondyolithesis

Procedures Performed:
1. Selective nerve root injections
2. Transforaminal epidural injections
3. Facet joint injection
4. Radiofrequency Ablation
5. Sacroiliac joint injection
6. Hip injection
7. Discography
8. IDET
9. Percutaneous disc decompression
10.Vertebroplasty
11. Electrodiagnostic Studies
12. Peripheral Joint Injections
13. Trigger Point Injections
14. Nerve conduction/EMG studies