Effective Pain Management begins with an accurate diagnosis of the pain generator. Spinal related pain is typically caused by an injured area of tissue close to a nerve. Incoming patients receive a clinical assessment in our exam rooms in order to best understand the history related to the injured area.

Diagnostic injections allow confirmation of the specific nerve location through a painless injection of anesthetic into the area surrounding the suspected nerve.

This process of correctly identifying the nerve generating the pain signal is perhaps the most important step in the treatment process.

Discograms are used to conclusively determine whether the source of pain is from the disc itself.