Pain Management Treatments are minimally invasive, non-surgical procedures to alleviate chronic back pain and discomfort to aid in the rehabilitation and diagnosis of the underlying trauma or condition. Dr. Spivak provides several different types of pain management treatments for managing back pain.
Discography
Overview This procedure, also called a "discogram," helps your doctor find painful spinal discs. It can show the source of pain in your back. To see how it works, let's watch a discography...
Find out MoreFacet Thermal Ablation
Overview During this minimally-invasive procedure, the physician uses heat from radio waves to treat painful facet joints in your lower back. This procedure is also called radiofrequency...
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As anyone with chronic back pain and leg pain knows, response to pain therapies can be as individual as the pain experience itself. That’s why information about new treatment...
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The spine wears out as it ages or after injury through a process called degeneration. This bones break, the disks collapse, bulge, tear and rupture and the joints thicken and swell....
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Spinal cord stimulation is changing lives in more ways than just the physical pain and discomfort that the procedure has been proven to ease. While many patients who undergo the...
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Pain injections may give you more relief than oral pain relievers. Pain injections can direct medications straight to the location where the pain originates, whereas the action of...
Find out MoreStem Cell Disc Regeneration
There are many types of invasive treatments, some of which can be quite effective but none of them actually repair the damaged disk. Much progress has been made in experimental stem...
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