Expert Diagnosis and Targeted Treatments

Our team applies a nuanced and targeted approach to each of our patients. This allows us to deliver focused, personalized care that will meet your individual needs, concerns, and goals.

Our physicians believe in not just addressing pain but also its underlying cause. Our care begins with a complete examination, as well as any necessary diagnostic tests so that we can quickly and effectively identify the root condition and determine the optimal therapies.

We are skilled at interpreting x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) bone scan imaging, as well as the most advanced forms of diagnostic studies, including ultrasound, electromyography (EMG), and nerve conduction studies.

Montefiore's Multidisciplinary Pain specialists treat a wide range of disorders, largely on an outpatient basis. These conditions include:

Bursitis
Back pain
Sciatica
Spinal stenosis
Failed back surgery syndrome
Herniated disk
Spinal cord injury spasticity and pain
Cancer pain

Painful nerve injuries, including nerve entrapment syndromes
Pelvic pain
Muscle-related neck pain
Osteoarthritis of the spine and joints
Headache, including migraines
Rheumatologic disorders

Our treatment plans focus on non-opiate and other safe, minimally invasive techniques to ease your discomfort. We provide a full gamut of advanced procedures to treat chronic pain including:

Back Pain Procedures

Caudal epidural steroid injection
Discography/Intradiscal steroid injection
Dorsal root ganglion stimulator trial
Epidural lysis of adhesions
Facet aspiration/injection
Ganglion of impar block/Sacro-coccygeal Joint
Interlaminar epidural steroid injection – cervical/thoracic/lumbar

Medial branch block - cervical/thoracic/lumbar
Medial branch radiofrequency ablation – cervical/thoracic/lumbar
Percutaneous disc decompression
Transforaminal epidural steroid injection – lumbar
Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD)
Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty
Spinal cord stimulator trial

Joint and Musculoskeletal Pain Procedures

Carpal tunnel injection
Genicular nerve block and radiofrequency ablation
Greater trochanteric bursa injection
Hip injection
Knee injection

Sacroiliac joint injection
Shoulder injection
Subacromial injection
Percutaneous tenotomy
Trigger point injections

Other Procedures

Baclofen pump trial
Blood patch
Botox
Celiac plexus block
Femoral-Obturator block
Genitofemoral nerve block
Ilioinguinal nerve block
Intercostal nerve block
Lumbar sympathetic nerve block
Occipital, auriculo-temporal, supraorbital and supratrochlear nerve block

Paravertebral block
Sphenopalatine ganglion block
Stellate ganglion block
Superior hypogastric plexus block
Suprascapular nerve block
Third occipital nerve, C2 dorsal root ganglion radiofrequency ablation
Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block
Trigeminal nerve block

Numerous Benefits & Improved Quality of Life

In addition to a reduction in the duration and severity of your pain, there are numerous benefits to our pain management techniques. Treating chronic pain allows our patients to experience an improved quality of life in addition to the following benefits:

Increased flexibility, function, and mobility
The ability to undergo physical and occupational therapy more comfortably
Better quality sleep
Increased energy and productivity
Decreased anxiety and improved mental health
Greater ease in engaging in all aspects of your life

To schedule a consultation, please contact us at 718-920-7246 (PAIN).

Anesthesiology