All procedures performed with state-of-the-art high resolution fluoroscopy &/or CT guidance

Diagnostic Digital Imaging

New, State-of-the-Art Equipment:

  • Plain X-rays
  • CT 64 slice, dual source, dual energy, low dose
  • MRI (1.5T standard and 3.0T large opening)
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Ultrasound
  • PET/CT scanner
  • Bone Densitometry (Osteoporosis DEXA scan)


Diagnostic Injections and Procedures

  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar low dose intrathecal contrast spine CT
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar myelogram
  • Post Myelogram Spine CT
  • Cervical and lumbar discography (discogram)
  • Post discogram CT
  • Diagnostic Selective Nerve Block (Cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
  • Injection of symptomatic spinal hardware
  • MRI, CT for Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leak
  • Spine and Bone Biopsies
  • Intevertebral Disc Biopsy Disc Biopsy
  • CT guided Biopsies of soft tissue lesions throughout body
  • All Joint Aspirations


Therapeutic Injections and Procedures

CERVICAL

  • Cervical Epidural Steroids
  • Cervical Selective Nerve Block
  • Cervical Facet Joint block (medial branch block)
  • Radio Frequency Ablation/Neurolysis (Facet Joint Pain)
  • C1-2 joint steroid injection
  • Sympathetic Nerve Block
  • Stellate Ganglion Block
  • Spinal Cord Stimulator


THORACIC

  • Thoracic Epidural Steroids
  • Thoracic Selective Nerve Block
  • Sympathetic Nerve Block
  • Intercostal Nerve Block (Shingles, Rib Fractures, etc.)
  • Costovertebral Block
  • Vertebroplasty
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Thoracic facet block and Radio Frequency Ablation/neurolysis (Facet Joint Pain)
  • Spinal Cord Stimulator


LUMBAR

  • Interlaminar Lumbar Epidural Injection (Low Back and Leg Pain, Sciatica)
  • Transforaminal Selective Lumbar Nerve Block
  • Caudal Epidural Injection
  • Radio Frequency Ablation/Neurolysis (facet Syndrome)
  • Sympathetic Nerve Blocks
  • Hypogastric Plexus Blocks
  • Vertebroplasty
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Blood Patch (Spinal Headache after Spine Surgery or Lumbar Puncture)
  • Percutaneous Discectomy
  • Percutaneous Adhesiolysis post spinal surgery
  • Spinal Cord Stimulator

ABDOMEN

  • Celiac Ganglion Block-(Pancreas Cancer, Other Cancer, Pancreatitis)
  • Splanchnic Nerve Block-(Pancreas Cancer, Other Cancer, Pancreatitis)


PELVIS

  • Sacroiliac Joint Block (Back Pain)
  • Selective Sacral Nerve Block
  • Pubic Symphysis injection (pregnancy or other)
  • Bone Cement Augmentation (Painful Cancer Spread to Bone)
  • Sacroplasty-insufficiency fractures, cancer
  • Puboplasty, Ischioplasty-insufficiency fractures, Cancer
  • Ganglion Impar Block (Coccydynia, Pelvic Pain)
  • Sacrococcygeal nerve and plexus block and Radio-frequency ablation (Coccydynia)

Non-Spinal Nerve Block

  • Peripheral Nerves
  • Greater and Lesser Occipital nerves (Headache)
  • 3rd Occipital Nerve (Headache)
  • Obturator Nerve
  • Pudental Nerve
  • Suprascapular
  • Common peroneal
  • Median nerve-carpal tunnel
  • Ulnar nerve

Soft Tissue Injections

  • Trigger Points
  • Lateral epidcondyle (tennis elbow) and medial epicondyle (golfer's elbow)
  • Botox (e.g. Piriformis Syndrome, Psoas Syndrome, Muscle Spasm Conditions
  • Plantar fascia steroids (plantar fasciitis)

Bursa Injections

  • Trochanteric
  • Iliopsoas
  • Olecranon
  • Ischial
  • Subacromial
  • Prepatellar
  • Infrapatellar
  • Pes Anserine
  • Calcanial
  • Plantar fascia

Joint Injections for Pain Control

  • Shoulders
  • Knees
  • Hip
  • Sacroiliac
  • Wrist
  • Ankle
  • Elbow
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar cervical facets
  • Greater trochanteric bursa (trochanteric bursitis)
Pain Management
Spine Pain & Treatment Center
Procedures Offered
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
               Minimally Invasive Alternatives to Surgery
Copyright © 2008, Joel Garris MD, FACR. All rights reserved.
Spine and Pain Associations; ABR Board Certification