Chronic Pain

The Interventional Pain Clinic has been providing both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures at Rush-Copley since July 2001. Here our physicians customize treatment plans based on initial patient consultations which are specific to individual needs. We also keep the referring physician informed beginning with the consultation and through all subsequent treatments. And, of course, the patient and the family are included every step of the way.

Our Goals

The goals of the clinic are to help patients:

• Increase function
• Improve quality of life
• Rehabilitate
• Decrease frequency & intensity of pain
• Learn new coping skills
• Resolve sleep disturbances

Conditions Diagnosed and Treated

Spinal Pain

• Low back pain and chronic neck pain
  • Herniated disc
  • Discogenic pain
  • Facet joint dysfunction
  • Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Sciatica
  • Vertebral compression fractures
  • Scoliosis/Spinal deformity pain
  • Degenerative disc disease
• Whiplash injury and cervicogenic headache
• Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
• Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain
• Arthritic pain

Headache

• Cervicogenic headache
• Trigeminal headache
• Occipital neuralgia
• Orofacial pain
• Temporomandibular pain
• Post-herpetic neuralgia
• Cancer Pain
• Chronic Pelvic Pain
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/Complex
• Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Neuropathic Pain/Peripheral Neuropathy
• Spasticity
• Sport Related Injuries
• Work Related Injuries

Procedures Offered

Disc Procedures

• Percutaneous disc decompression
  • Disc decompresser
  • Nucleoplasty decompression
  • LASE procedure
• Discogenic pain diagnosis and treatment
  • Discography (lumbar/thoracic/cervical)
  • IDET (intradiscal electrothermal therapy)
  • DiscTRODE
• Vertebrosplasty/Kyphoplasty
• Percutaneous transforaminal foraminectomy/foraminoplasty
• Epidural lysis of adhesions
• Botox injections

Radiofrequency Neuroablation

• Facet joint (cervical/lumbar)  Sacroiliac joints
• Sympathetic chains (thoracic/lumbar)
• Cervical nerves and ganglia
• Cranial granglia

Cryoablation

• Ilioinguinal nerve
• Iliohypogastric nerve
• Genitofemoral nerve
• Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
• Obturator nerve
• Hypogastric plexus
• Sympathetic ganlion (lumbar and thoracic)
• Median nerve
• Intercostal nerve
• Trigeminal nerve
• Greater and lesser occipital nerves

Neurostimulation

• Dorsal column stimulation
• Peripheral nerve stimulation

Intrathecal Pump Placement

• Opioid
• Baclofen

Epiduroscopy

Acupuncture

Diagnostic & Therapeutic Injections

• Lumbar, thoracic and cervical epidural steroid injections
• Transforaminal lumbar/thoracic/cervical epidural steroid injection
• Sacroiliac joint injections
• Lumbar and cervical facet joint injections
• Joint (knee/hip/shoulder) injections
• Piriformis muscle injection
• Stellate ganglion block
• Lumbar sympathetic block
• Brachial plexus block
• Ganglion impar block
• Hypogastric plexus block
• Peripheral nerve blocks