Rivers Edge Pain Relief Treatment

To our Medical Colleagues of the Ohio Valley

As the area’s premier Interventional Pain Practice , we offer State of the Art Procedures as well as offer Medical Management using a variety of established medications which help relieve pain.
We are the only Interventional Pain Clinic in the Ohio Valley that offers Pharmaco-Genetic testing (PGT). We are able to swab your mouth and find out your genetic make-up and what the pain medications work the best when you take them for your painful condition(s). Why waste your time guessing which medications work the best in your body.

Let us break down the body into regions and apply the Interventional techniques utilized in those areas.

HEAD

• Occipital blocks(Greater and Lesser Occipital Nerves) and Rf Ablation

Cervical Spine

• Facet Injections and Rf Ablation procedures
• Interlaminar ESI (Epidural)
• Stellate Ganglion Procedure for RSD/Causalgia of the arms

Thoracic Spine

• Facet Injections and Rf Ablation procedures
• Interlaminar ESI (Epidural)

Lumbar Spine

• Facet Injections and Rf Ablation procedures
• Interlaminar and Caudal ESI (Epidural)
• Selective Nerve Root Blocks (SNRB) ESI for Sciatic pain

Sacral Iliac (S.I. Joint)

• S.I. joint Injection and Rf Ablation procedures
• Provocative S.I. Joint injection procedure for S.I. Joint Fusion

Extremities

Shoulders

• Fluoroscopically directed Cortisone and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) Injections PRP is obtained by drawing the patient’s blood, which is then highly concentrated into a solution of healing proteins. These proteins help combat the inflammation of arthritis as well as promote cell growth and increase blood flow.
• Suprascapular and A.C. joint injection and Rf Ablation procedures

Elbows/Wrists

• Cortisone injection procedures to Ulnar Nerve (Cubital Tunnel) and Median Nerve (Carpal Tunnel) and PRP to Wrist
• Carpal Tunnel Surgery to release pressure on the wrist affecting the wrist

Hips

• Injection of Cortisone and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) PRP is obtained by drawing the patient’s blood, which is then highly concentrated into a solution of healing proteins. These proteins help combat the inflammation of arthritis as well as promote cell growth and increase blood flow.
• Injection and Rf Ablation of Trochanteric Nerves procedures

Knees

• Injection of Cortisone, Visco Supplementation, and PRP procedures
• Geniculate Nerve injection and Rf Ablation procedures
• PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) PRP is obtained by drawing the patient’s blood, which is then highly concentrated into a solution of healing proteins. These proteins help combat the inflammation of arthritis as well as promote cell growth and increase blood flow.

Ankles

• Injection of Tarsal Tunnel procedure

Areas of expertise

1. Proficiency in the use of Controlled Substances
2. Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar Spine pain
3. Sciatic & radiating buttock pain
4. Herniated & bulging discs
5. Post Laminectomy Syndrome and complications from Back Surgery
6. Spinal arthritis & stenosis
7. Post-surgical pain from various body parts that had surgery
8. Radiculopathy of Cervical/Thoracic/and Lumbar Spine
9. Arachnoiditis
10. Post Amputation pain, Phantom Pain
11. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD vs. Causalgia)
12. Diabetic Neuropathy
13. Fibromyalgia
14. MVA & WORK COMP INJURIES
15. Arthritis Pain-Including Shoulder, Elbow, Wrists, Hips, Knees, Ankles
16. Chronic Intractable Pain
17. Treatment of Painful Active Herpetic Lesions
18. Treating our Veterans in Chronic Pain who are not satisfied with their current treatment plan and want to be treated closer to home.
19. Foot and Ankle problems including Morton's Neuroma.

SCS Treatment (Neuromodulation) for a variety of painful conditions

• SCS Trial
• SCS Permanent

Various Symptoms/Disease states that respond well to neuromodulation procedures

• Neurogenic Claudication Primarily from Spinal Stenosis
• Vascular Claudication from Arterial/Venous/and Diabetes
• Ischemic Neuropathic Pain from Diabetes/Vascular issues

Pain Pump (Morphine Pump) Treatment

Used for patients in chronic intractable pain or have many complications with Oral Opioids.

S.I. ( Sacral-Iliac ) Fusion

We utilize the CornerLoc system which we have found effective to treat ailments of the S.I. joint.